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NOVEMBER 1908 




Four generations 

(No. 48) MRS. M.\RY VVY.'^NDT BALL, CANTON, OHIO 
DAUGHTER MRS. A. C. CUBBISON 
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A BRIEF HISTORY 




ANDREW PUTMAN 

(BUTTMAN, PUTNAM) 

CHRISTIAN WYANDT 

(WEYANDT, WEYGANDT. VOINT, WYAND) 

AND ADAM SNYDER FAMILIES 

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OF WASHINGTON COUNTY 



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"TJffi SENTIMENT OF THE TRIBE'* 

He wove his own nest and his shanty was spread 
With skins he had stretched out over head. 
Fresh hemlock made fragrant the floor, 
For his bed as he sung when the daylight was o'er. 



The world is wide enough, there is room for all. 
Room enough in the green woods if not in the hall. 
Room, boys, room by the light of the moon, 
For why should not each man enjoy his own room? 

Note: — Printed in Antietam Valley Record, April 1899 — from 
a copy found by E. C. Wyand in an old German Bible in the 
Attic of the Christian Wyandt Home. 



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PREFACE 




HIS volume owes whatever its worth 
may be to the desire I have had 
since childhood days to know who 
I am. At the start this work 

was to make that discovery and to 
appease my idle fancy. The way, 
at the beginning, was apparently 
broad and well illuminated, but six- 
teen years have elapsed since the 
initial line was written, and the task 
has become one of no little propor- 
tions. It has taken the writer to 
all the important libraries in Mary- 
land, Washington, D. C, and Boston, 
as well as to all the County Court Houses in which 
records of interest may have been deposited, — 
Hagerstown, Frederick, Upper Marlboro and 
Annapolis. Every graveyard in which, perchance, 
a stone of interesting date might rest, has been 
visited and records made for comparison. Scores 
of old bibles have been pressed into service, news- 
paper files gleaned, and last but not least, trips 
were made everywhere to consult Old Folks. We 
regret that the most valuable records were burnt 
with the Court House in Frederick City, Mary- 
land, which was the county seat of what is now 
Washington County from 1745 to 1797, in 1846. 
Here, there, and everywhere, particulars of in- 
formation were gathered for comparison as well 
as for new light. A trip was made through the 
West in 1904, visiting Iowa, Illinois and Indiana, 
and in 1906 a special trip was made through Ohio, 



all the centers being visited. So obscure were 
some dates that we have resorted to logic and 
mathematics, yet with it all we see clearly how 
incomplete and inaccurate our details are, and 
solicit your indulgence. 

From this acorn we trust an oak will grow, and 
then the planting has paid for itself. 

One of the most striking points in the history 
of these two families is that of their inter-marriage. 
Repeatedly first cousins have married, here in 
Maryland, in Pennsylvania and in Ohio. 

As a result of this inter-marrying the writer is 
doubly qualified for his duty, being a direct de- 
scendant of Christian Wyandt on both sides — 
Christian Wyandt being both his great grand- 
father and great-great grandfather. Another 
incident qualifying the writer, and which is father 
to this effort, is that many years of his childhood 
were spent with his grandfather, Ezra J. Snyder, 
in the old Putman and Wyandt house. It was 
those boyhood days there in that atmosphere, in 
which these ancestors lived and died, that awak- 
ened the desire which has resulted in this work. 

My thanks are tendered first of all to David O. 
Snyder, who has patiently withstood thirty years 
continued questioning; to Mrs. Truman Palmer, 
Wilmot, for notes, clippings and letters; to Dr. 
Adolphus Gans, Massilon, Ohio, E. K. Trauger, 
Attorney at Law, Plymouth, Ohio; to Rev. J. D. 
Wyandt, Justice, Ohio; Judge D. D. Heller, De- 
catur, Ind.; Miss Bessie Host, Bowerston, Ohio; 
Caleb Wyand, D. H. Wyand, Keedysville, Md., 
Miss Emily Parker, and Wm. H. Welfley, Somer- 
set, Pa., and others. 

Respectfully submitted, 

E. Clayton Wyand. 



CONTENTS 

Pagb 

Andrew PuTMAN AND Posterity - - - - ii 

Andrew Putman Will, - - - - 20 

Deed from Josiah Chapune to Andrew Putman - 12 

Putman Reunion, Ohio - - - - 23 

Christian Wyandt and Posterity - - - - 24 

Deed from Putman Heirs to Christian Wyand - 24 

Deed from Abraham Rote to Christian Wyandt - 28 

Christian WyandT's Will - - - - 35 

Aftermath _______ -,4 

Miscellaneous Letters ----- 82 

Wyandt Geneology - - - - - - 89 

E. Clayton Wyand - _____ 102 



ILLUSTRATIONS 

E. C. Wyand _____ Frontispiece 

Opposite Pack 

2 The Homestead ------ 3 

3 The Homestead, near view - - - - 11 

4 Distill and Spring House - - - -12 

5 Somerset, Pa. - - - - - - 16 

6 Jacob Snyder ___--- 22 

7 Mrs. Jacob Snyder - - - - - 27 

8 Mrs. Christiania Wyandt Deaner - - - 30 

9 John H. Snavely and Wife _ _ _ 37 

10 Old Folks Reception ----- 40 

11 KeEDYSVILLE, Md. _____ 44 

12 David Henry Wyand - - - - - 46 

13 Jacob M. Snyder _____ 51 

14 Four Generations ----- 54 

15 Judge D. D. Heller - _ - _ - 58 

16 David O. Snyder ------ 60 

17 Daniel B. Wyandt _ _ - - - 65 

18 Scott Wyandt ------ 66 

19 Dr. Alpheus H. Gans ----- 68 

20 Dr. Cullen p. Wolf - - - - - 72 

21 Dr. Louis E. Menuez _ _ _ _ 77 

22 The Three Doctors' Wives - - - - 80 

23 W. H. H. AglER, a. W. AglEr _ _ _ 84 

24 David H. Buxton ------ 86 

25 Curtis L. Buxton _____ 90 

26 Rev. Simon Snyder Wyand - - - - 95 

27 JosEPHUS E. Wyand ----- 98 

28 Modern Putman-Wyand-Snyders _ _ _ 100 

29 At THE Old Homestead, Nov, 1908 - - - 102 




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A^^ NDREW PUTMAN, or Buttman, came to 
America from Germany, but there is noth- 
SSSj ing to prove the year of his arrival nor the 
port of landing. Whether he had settled 
in Pennsylvania and pushed into Maryland during 
"The Border Trouble," or whether he found his 
way here during the influx of Germans, who had 
been gathered up by Joss Hite and Jacob Von 
Meeter to settle in Virginia, at the request of the 
Governor of Virginia, we do not know. But we 
do know that he had settled upon a tract of ninety 
acres of vacant land, and in 1770 (by the records 
at the Frederick City Court House) purchased of 
Joseph Chaplin fifty acres, tract called "Part- 
nership," a part of a tract called " Resurvey on 
Root's Hill," now together, and known as the 
"Old Snyder Homestead," which is situated one 
mile south-east of Eakle's Mills, Md. 

In Rupp's thirty thousand names of Germans 
who arrived in Philadelphia from Palatinate, via 
Rotterdam, between 17 19 and 1780, we find but 
one mention of the name Buttman — one Philip 
Jacob Buttman, who sailed Oct. 7, 1743. On 
the same ship came one Henrich Brunner and 
one Johan Philip Schneider. The date and famil- 
iar associated names may count for something. 
The Andrew Buttman in question may have re- 
sided in Pennsylvania, or one of the Northern 



12 ANDREW PUTMAN AND POSTERITY 



colonies — perhaps Massachusetts, where the name 
is among the oldest — and came to Maryland when 
the invitations were extended to German families 
by the Governors of Maryland and Virginia. 
(There were two — John and Philip Putman in 
Frederick County in 1790 with families.) All we 
know is that Andrew Putman, or Buttman, was 
in Washington County before 1770, and that the 
neighborhood there was a wilderness whose des- 
olate frontiers, on dark nights, were made hideous 
by the M^hoop of painted warriors and howl of 
wild beasts. 

The log house which Putman erected as his 
residence, and which was perhaps the first house 
in this section, is standing to-day and occupied 
by descendants, — D. O. Snyder and sister. 

DEED FROM JOSIAH CHAPLINE TO ANDREW 

PUTMAN 

(Examined and delivered to Andrew Putman.) 

At the request of Andrew Puttman the follow- 
ing Deed was Recorded, January 11, 1770. To 
wit: 

This Indenture made this Eighteenth Day of 
December, in the year of our Lord one thousand 
seven hundred and sixty-nine, Between Josiah 
Chapline of the County of Frederick and Province 
of Maryland on the one part, and Andrew Putt- 
man of the same county and Province aforesaid 
of the other part, witnesseth, that the said Josiah 
Chapline for and in consideration of the sum of 




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eighty-five pounds current money to him in hand, 
paid by the said Andrew Puttman before the 
Ensoling and Delivering of these presents the Re- 
ceipt whereof the said Josiah Chapline doth hereby 
acknowledge and of every part Parcell thereof 
doth aquitt and Discharge the said Andrew Putt- 
man, his heirs, and assignes for ever, he the said 
Josiah Chapline hath granted, Bargained and 
sold alianted and confirmed, and by these presents 
doth hereby grant. Bargain, sell, allain and con- 
firm unto the said Andrew Putnam, his heirs and 
assigns for ever all that Tract of Land called 
"Partnership," lying and being in the County 
aforesaid being a part of the tract of Land called 
the Resurvey on Roots Hill and Being the said 
part called Partnership at the end of the thirteenth 
line of the Resurvey on Roots' Hill and Running 
thence south five Degrees east one hundred and 
five perches, then south thirty-four Degrees, west 
thirty-two Degrees, then South eighty Degrees 
west fourteen perches, then north seventy one 
Degrees west twenty-two perches to the end of 
the twenty-second line of the said land called 
Resurvey on Root's Hill and running with the 
twenty -thirdline of the said land north twenty- 
five degrees west twenty-six perches. Then by 
a straight line to the Beginning containing Fifty 
acres of Land in the same more or less with the 
appurtenance unto the said Land belonging or 
anywise appurtaining and all the estate, Right, 
Title, Interest, Claims, and Demand whatsoever 
of him the said Josiah Chapline, of, in and unto 
Fifty acres of Land called Partnership and Prem- 



14 ANDREW PUTMAN AND POSTERITY 



ises thereto Belonging and every Part thereof 
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD — the said Land all and 
singular the Premises and appurtenances thereto 
Belonging unto him the said Andrew Puttman, 
his heirs, and assignes, to be the only property and 
behoof of the said Andrew Putman, his heirs, 
and assigns forever, and to not other use, intention 
or purposes whatsoever, and the said Josiah 
Chapline for himself and his Heirs the said Fifty 
acres of Land and all the Bargained Premises 
thereto belonging to Josiah Chapline and his 
heirs and against all and every other Person or 
Persons whatever claiming by, from or under him 
they or any of them shall and will awarrent and 
forever Defend by these presents In witness 
whereof the said Josiah Chapline signed, sealed 
and Delivered in the presence of 

Sam'l Beall, Jr., 
Thomas Prather. . 

Josiah Chapline, [seal] 

On the back of the Deed were the following 
Indorsements, to wit: 

December loth, 1769, Received the day and 
year within written of Andrew Puttman the Sum 
of 85 pounds current money, being the considera- 
tion money within mentioned — (I say rec'd pr me) 

Witness present, 

Sam'l Beall, Jr., 
Thos. Prather. 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 15 

Frederick Courts, ss., Dec. the 10 day, 1769. 
Came Josiah Chapline partie mentioned in the 
within Deed before us the subscribed being two 
of his Lordship's Justices of the Peace and for the 
county aforesaid, and acknowledge the within 
Instrument of writing to be his act and Deed and 
the ^'Fifteen acres of Land therein mentioned 
and every part thereof to be the Right and estate 
of the within named Andrew Putnam, his heirs 
and assignes forever. 

Sall'l Beall, Jr. 

Thos. Prather. 

The date of Putman's birth and that of his mar- 
riage are unknown. Neither is it known where 
Putman and his wife are buried, but is generally 
supposed by the oldest descendants that they lie 
buried in Mrs. F. B. Keyfauver's apple orchard. 
Here forty-two yards from the fence on the line 
south of the orchard, and forty-two yarde east 
from the rocks above the branch of water, and 
about 150 yards direct south from the house, is 
the site of the family burial plot, and here lies, 
to my knowledge, the remains of Rose Wyand, 
my father's sister. My father's brother, Caleb 
Wyand, pointing out the plot to me on Jan. i 
1909, remarked that it used to be enclosed with a 
paling fence, around which he plowed when a boy, 
and later when the fence had decayed, and fallen, 
he plowed across the plot. George Fisher, an 
old colored man, an ex-slave and war veteran, 



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work and given here. E. C. W. 



i6 ANDREW PUTMAN AND POSTERITY 



tells me that he and Pembroke Griffith there 
years ago plowed out grave stones. Mrs. Amelia 
Rohrer, a descendant who is now in her eightieth 
year, tells me that she attended funerals which 
were held in the barn. I believe Christian Wy- 
andt is buried here also. 

To arrive at the age of Andrew Putman we 
resort to figures. Amelia Putman, fifth child, 
died in 1853 nearly one hundred years of age. 
She was born about 1754. There were four chil- 
dren before her. Allow two years between each 
and we have for the date of birth of the first, 1744. 
There was no settlement here prior to 1745, and 
• Putman came between 1750 and 1770, therefore, 
Putman had a family when he arrived. 

Now allow twenty-three years for his age before 
birth of first child, in 1744 or 1746, he was born, 
accordingly, about 1721-23. He may have been 
twenty-five or thirty at time of his marriage. If he 
was born in 1721 he was only fifty-eight when he 
died in 1777. We are sure of the date of his death, 
it being clearly stated by the Register of Wills. 

Just who Catherine Putman, his wife, was we 
may never know. She may have been either a 
Wyandt or a Schneider. 

Andrew and Catherine Putman had eight chil- 
dren — three sons and five daughters: (i) John, 
(2) Peter, (3) Elizabeth, who married John Dull; 
(4) Magdalena ("Mary"), who married Henry 
Brunner; (5) Amelia, ("Mary Ann"), who mar- 
ried Christian Wyandt; (6) Catherine, who mar- 
ried Adam Schneider; (7) Susan, who married 
Henry Baker; and (8) Andrew. 



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Peter and Andrew Putman, John Dull and 
Henry Brunner removed to Milford Township, 
Bedford County, Pa., in 1785, and later, into 
Somerset County, Pa., to which place Adam 
Schneider also removed. Adam Schneider, who 
married Catherine Putman, and posterity is a 
subject in the second section of this volume. 

Henry Baker removed to Baltimore, and, I 
believe, was engaged in the manufacture of glass. 

Christian Wyandt (Wyand), who married Amelia 
Putman, is the subject of the second section of 
this work. 

John Dull and his wife, Elizabeth (Putman), 
died in Ohio when the scourge of cholera passed 
that state. Their son Joseph Dull, died in Lick- 
ing County, Ohio, Oct. 17, 1891, aged 87 years, 
8 months, 8 days, leaving ten children, four 
grandchildren and twenty-four great-grand-chil- 
dren. Joseph Dull was a recruiting officer during 
the Civil War. 

Andrew Putman (II) married Elizabeth Lenhert 
and to them were born eleven children: John, 
Gabriel, Joseph, Peter, Polly, who married John 
Schaffer*; Kate, wife of Wm. Logan; Eva, wife of 
Geo. Paron; Sallie, wife of Geo. Piles; Rose, wife 
of John Coves; Hannah, wife of Henry Brunner 
(Jr.?); and Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Putman, 
her cousin. 

John (III), born in Somerset County, Pa., on 
Feb. 2, 1789, removed to Ohio in 1817, settled 
government land, section 33, married Charlotte 
King. To them were born seven children: Mary, 
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i8 ANDREW PUTMAN AND POSTERITY 



Elizabeth, now Mrs. Andrew Spidle, Wilmot; An- 
drew, at Justice; Phoebe, now Mrs. Wm. Slater, 
Mercer County; Timothy, Beach City; Annie, and 
a baby, both dying young. 

The wife of John Putman (III) died in 185 1, 
and he married Sarah Hall, who lived with him 
until his death, May, 3, 1872. He was then 83 
years, 3 months i day. He left five children, 22 
grand children, 80 great-grand children, and 14 
great-great grand children. 

Gabriel Putman, of Andrew Jr., born in Somer- 
set County, Pa., Jan. 24, 1795, migrated to Ohio 
in 1817. Two years later returned to Pennsyl- 
vania and married Susan Weimer, and took her 
to his log cabin in the Ohio wilderness. He made 
a valuable farm of the unbroken forest. To them 
five children were born: Joseph, Hiram, Chris- 
tiana Kaylor, Harriet Shunk of Iowa, and Sallie 
Ash of Wood County. Two years after the death 
of his wife he married Rebecca White, who died 
three years later. In 187 1 he married Sarah Hite, 
who survived him. He was township constable 
and trustee for some years. With D. B. and C. 
Wyandt he founded the Agricultural Works which 
was for years the most prosperous manufacturing 
establishment in Stark County. He died on Nov. 
27, 1882, at the ripe age of 88 years. 

Peter Putman of Andrew Jr., migrated to Stark 
County about 1830, then to Van Wert County 
about 1838, where he settled down in the woods 
and made himself a pleasant home. He was the 
father of eighteen children, seventy-five grand 
children and fifteen great-grand children. 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 19 



Peter Putman (II) had eleven children: George, 
Henry, Michael and Peter, who lived and died in 
Somerset County, Pa., Jacob and Andrew, who 
migrated to Van West County, Ohio, in 1835, 
where they died, and Joseph, who emigrated to 
Stark County, Ohio. 

Joseph Putman (III), last of the family of Peter 
Putman (II), born in Somerset County, Pa., 1808. 
Bereft of father at five years. Taken by his 
brother Peter and brother-in-law, Wm. Shunt. 
He began life as a farm hand at low wages. In 
October, 1829, married Elizabeth Putman, young- 
est daughter and child of his uncle, Andrew Put- 
man (II). By frugality and industry he was 
soon able to buy a small farm. With the death 
of Andrew Putman he met reverses and in 1833 
went from Somerset County to Stark County, 
Ohio, where he purchased 365 acres in Sugar 
Creek Township. The old pioneer died in 1890 
at the ripe age of 82 years, 8 months and 13 days. 
He was a member of the Evangelical church. 
The following children survived him: William 
Putman, Mrs. Henry Kreiling, Mrs. Frederick 
Naumann, and Mrs. Mary Gonawer. 

Andrew Putnam (III) son of John Putnam (II), 
was born in Somerset County, in 1816. Two 
years afterward his father removed to Stark 
County, Ohio. At the age of 22 Andrew married 
Judith Slater, last of a family of fourteen children. 
He farmed and sawed timber. He soon removed 
to a faim near Justus. He had four children, 
two of which preceded him in that far journey. 
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20 ANDREW PUTMAN AND POSTERITY 



At 30 he joined the United Brethren Church and, 
as there was no building for a time in that section, 
his house was the place of worship and home of 
the minister. He was liberal toward all churches, 
and was a strong prohibitionist. He died at the 
age of seventy-five from pneumonia. 

WILL OF ANDREW PUTMAN 

In the name of God, Amen, I, Andrew Putman, 
of Washington County, and Province of Maryland, 
being Sick and weak in Body, but of sound mind, 
memory and understanding, do make and pub- 
lish this my last Will and Testament in manner 
and form following, viz.: first and punctually I 
recommend my Soul to Almighty God who gave 
it me, and my Body to be buried in decent order 
at the discretion of my Executor hereafter named, 
and as to the worldly Estate it has pleased God 
to bestow on me, I give and bequeath as follows: 

Imprimis: I will that all my Just Debts and 
funeral charges be first paid, then, I give and be- 
queath unto my w^ell beloved Wife, Catherine, the 
use of all my Estate, Real and Personal, for and 
during her Natural Life in case she remains a 
widow, but if she marrys I do allow that my 
Estate may be Immediately sold to the best ad- 
vantage (excepting her thirds) and distributing 
amongst my children in the same manner as is 
hereinafter mentioned, allowing her, my said 
wife, fifty pounds good and lawful money of 
Pennsylvania over and above her thirds if she 
doth marry. Item: I give and bequeath unto 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 21 



my son John Twenty-five pounds of the above 
currency, and to ray sons Peter and Andrew 
Twenty pounds each over and above any of the 
rest of my children. Item: I also give and be- 
queath unto my children John, Peter, Elizabeth, 
Mary, Maryann, Catherine, Susannah and An- 
drew all the remainder of my estate. Real and 
Personal, to be sold at the death or marriage of 
my wife Cat herin e, which should happen first, 
and the Money to be equally divided amongst 
them. Lastly, I do contribute and appoint my 
trusty Friends, Samu'l Baker and Conrad Schnebly 
Executors of this my last Will and Testament, 
making void all other Wills by me heretofore 
made. In Testimony whereof I, the said Andrew 
Putman, have hereunto set my hand and afiiixed 
my Seal this fourth day of February, in the year 
of Our Lord Seventeen hundred and Seventy- 
seven. 

Signed, Sealed and delivered to be the last Will 
and Testament of the Testator, in presence of us 
who have signed at the Testator's request and in 
his presence. 

N. B. — The name Catherine was interlined be- 
tween the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth line 
before the signing and sealing thereof. 

Henry Geeting, 
John Tolts, 
Peter Shally. 

Andrew Putman. [seal] 



22 ANDREW PUTMAN AND POSTERITY 



{Indorsement on Back of Will.) 

On the back of the original will of the said An- 
drew Putnam are the following indorsements, 
(to wit) : 

Washington County, June 14, 1777. Then 
came Samuel Baker and Conrad Schnebly and 
made oath, etc., that the within Instrument of 
writing is the true and whole will and testament 
of Andrew Putman, of said county dece'd, that 
came to their hands or possession and that he 
doth not know of any other. 

And on the same day came Henry Geeting, Jr., 
Wm. Tolts and Peter Shally the three subscribing 
witnesses to the within Last will and Testament 
of Andrew Putnam and severally made oath on 
the Holy Evangelical, etc., that they did see 
the Testator therein named sign and Seal this 
Will and that they heard him publish, pronounce 
and declare the same to be his Last Will and 
Testament and at the time of his so doing he was 
to the best of their apprehension of sound and 
disposing mind, memory and understanding, and 
that they respectively subscribed their names 
to the Will in the presence and at the request of 
Testator and each other. 

Certified by, 

Thomas Sprigg, Register. 

Recorded, 14th June, 1777. 




JACOB SNYDER, AT 92 

(WAR OF 1S12) 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 23 



PUTMAN FAMILY REUNION 

A reunion of the Putman family was held in the 
grove on J. W. and W. S. Putman's farm, three 
miles south of Wilmont, Ohio, during the summer 
of 1888. Dinner was served on a 120 foot table. 
W. S. Putnam was master of ceremonies. Five 
hundred persons were present. 



In September, 1902, a reunion of the Wyandt 
Snyder and Rohrer families was held in the Town 
Hall in Keedysville, Md. Caleb Wyand was 
master of ceremonies. Dinner was served in the 
hall to all. About 150 persons were present. Chief 
addresses were made by Caleb Wyand, D. H. Wy- 
and,, A. D. Snyder and D. O. Snyder, Keedysville, 
Christian and Czar Snyder of Veedersburg, Ind., 
and " Uncle Joe" Snyder of Bismarck, 111. 




24 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



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HRISTIAN WYANDT [Weyandt, Wey- 
gandt, Wyand, Wyant, Wiegand, Voyant, 
Voint, etc.,] came to America from the 
State of Barvaria, Germany, about the 
time of the War of the Revolution, and made his 
home with Andrew Putman [Buttman], the sub- 
ject of the first section of this volume. In about 
1778 (soon after the time of Putman's death), 
he married Amelia Putman, fifth child of Andrew 
Putman, she being then about twenty-five. In 
1793 Wyandt bought the Putman estate "Part- 
nership," and his tract on Resurvey " Rpot's 
Hill," from the heirs. 

DEED OF ANDREW BUTTMAN TO CHRISTIAN 

WYAND 

At the request of Christian Wyand the follow- 
ing release was rendered 9th April, 1793, to wit: 

To all people to whom these presence shall 
come, greeting, Whereas Andrew Buttman of 
Washington County, in the State of Maryland, 
deceased, did by his last will and Testament, 
ordain and command that all his Estate in Land 
lying and being situated in the County and State 
aforesaid, now known and distinguished by the 
name of Partnership, consisting formerly of two 
tracts, the one containing fifty acres being called 



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part of Root's Hill, the other containing ninety- 
two acres and one quarter of an acre taken up as 
vacant land by the said Andrew Buttman by 
virtue of a warrant, now surveyed into one tract, 
should be divided in certain portions amongst 
his children, John Buttman, Elizabeth, Magdalene, 
Catherine, Mary, Peter and Andrew and Susannah 
Puttman, and whereas the before mentioned heirs 
of the Estate of the said Andrew Puttman, Sr,, 
Have for a valuable consideration to them in 
hand paid, sold and alliened their right, title, in- 
terest, claim and Demand of, in and to the said 
Estate in Land of the said Andrew Puttnam, 
Sen., to Christian Wyand Husband to the said 
Mary Buttman one of the co-heirs aforesaid. 
Now know ye that we John Dull husband to the 
said Elizabeth, and Henry Brunner husband to 
said Magdalene and Adam Sneider husband to 
said Catherine, and Peter Buttman and Amelia 
his wife and Andrew Buttman & Elizabeth his 
wife all of Milford Township, Bedford County 
and State of Pennsylvania, and Henry Baker 
and Susanna his wife of Baltimore town in the 
State of Maryland all of us heirs of the estate of 
the said deceased, do for us and each of us, for our 
and each of our heirs, executors, and administra- 
tors forever acquit release and discharge him the 
said Christian Wyand, his heirs, executors and 
administrators of and from all action or acting, 
suits, claims, and demands which we the heirs 
aforesaid or our and each of our heirs and exec- 
utors administrators or assigns can or may make 
against him the said Christian Wyand or his heirs, 



26 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



executors, or administrators for or on account of 
the estate of the said Andrew Buttman, Sen., 
deceased, or any part or parcel thereof and that 
he the said Christian Wyand for his heirs shall 
be forever freed and discharged from all and every 
claim or claims of others — that we or either of us 
or our heirs might make against the said Christian 
Wyand or his heirs executors or administrators. 
In Testimony whereof we have hereto set our 
hands and affixed our seals this sixteenth day of 
November in the year of our Lord one thousand 
seven hundred and ninety-two. 

Signed sealed and delivered in presence of us 
( ) 

( ) 

John X Dull, [seal] 

Elizabeth X Dull, [seal] 

(Ger.) Henry Brunner, [seal] 

(Ger.) Magdalene Brunner, [seal] 

(Ger.) Adam Schneider, 

Catherine X Schneider, 
(Ger.) Andrew Buttman, 
(Eng.)AMELiA Putman; 
(Ger.) Peter Buttman, [seal] 

(Eng.)ELiZABETH X Putman, [seal] 
(Ger.) Henry Baker, [seal] 

Susanna X Baker, [seal] 

Witnesses to: 

Henry Baker, 
Susanna Baker, 
Isaac V. Bibber, 
Abm V. Bibber. 




MRS. JACOB SNYDER, AT 87 

(CATHISKINE WYANDT) 

(No. 4) 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 27 



On the back of the aforegoing Release were 
written the following endorsements to wit: Dec. 
14, 1792, came Henry Baker & Susanna his wife 
before us the subscribing Justices of the peace 
for Baltimore City and did acknowledge the afore- 
going Instrument of writing to be their act and 
Deed according to the true intent and meaning 
of the same. 

Acknowledged before 

Isaac Vn. Bibber, 
Abm. Vn. Bibber. 

Bedford County, test. On the sixteenth day of 
November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven 
hundred and ninety-two personally came before us 
one of the Justices assigned to keep the peace in 
Bedford County and Milford Township the within 
mentioned John Dull and Elizabeth his wife and 
Henry Brunner and Magdalene, his wife, Adam 
Snyder and Catherine his wife, and Andrew Put- 
man and Elizabeth his wife, and did volunterly 
acknowledge the written Instrument to be a full 
release as witnessed my hand and seal the day 
and year above written. 

Philip King, [seal] 
William Ward, [seal] 

Baltimore County, test: 

I hereby certify to all whom it doth or may 
concern that Isaac Vanbibber and Abraham Van- 
bibber, Gentlemen before whom the written ac- 
knowledgments were taken and who have thereto 
subscribed their names, were at the time of taking 



28 CHRISTIAN W\^ANDT AND POSTERITY 



and signing thereof and still are two of the Justices 
of the peace in and for the County aforesaid, 
and to all certificates by them given as such. 
Our faith and credit, as and ought to be given 
as well in Court of Justice as thereout. 

In testimony thereof I have hereto set my 
hand and affixed the seal of my office this twelfth 
day of March seventeen hundred and ninety- 
three. Wm. Gibson, Cl'k Balto. City. 

Bedford County in the State of Pennsylvania 
to wit: I hereby certify to all whom in may con- 
cern that Philip King and William Ward, Gentle- 
men, before whom the within acknowledgement 
was taken and who have thereunto subscribed 
their names were at the time of the taking and 
signing thereof and still are two of the Justices of 
the peace in and for the county aforesaid and to 
all certificates by them given as such due faith 
and credit is given as well in Court of Justice as 
thereout. 

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my 
hand and affixed the seal of my olhce this third 
day of April Anno Domini, seventeen hundred 
and three. David Espy Prothy. 

DEED 

June 3d, 1795. 
Abraham Rote of the County of York and State 
of Pa., to Christian Viont 50 acres of land for 175 
pounds in Wash. Co., Md. being a part of Land 
on Resurvey of Root's Hill, from Moses Chapline 
to Richard Dean & R. Dean, heirs to Christian 
Rote to A. Rote heir-at-law. 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 29 



CHRISTIAN VOYANT, HIS PATENT, ETC. 

The State of Maryland. To all persons to 

whom these pres- 
ents shall come Greet- 
Thos. S. Lee, ing. Know Ye That 

A. C. Hanson, Chan. whereas Christian 

Voyant of Washing- 
ton county by his pe- 
tition to the chancellor did set forth that a cer- 
tain Andrew Butman on the thirtieth Day of Aug- 
ust seventeen hundred and seventy one had re- 
ceived for him a special warrent of revision, before 
that time obtained out of the proprietary's land 
office, on fifty acres part of a tract of land, lying 
then in PVederick, but now Washington county, 
called the Resurvey on Root's Hills originally on 
the thirty first Day of December seventeen hun- 
dred and sixty granted Moses Chapline for three 
hundred acres. In Parsuance whereof a resurvey 
was made on the eighteenth Day of December 
seventeen hundred and seventy one and called 
Partnership, a certificate whereof was returned 
to the land office by which it appeared the same 
contained one hundred and forty two acres and 
one quarter of an acre. Ninety two acres and 
one quarter whereof was vacancy added for which 
the said Andrew Butman fully complied according 
to the conditions of plantation then in force. That 
the said Andrew Butman departed this life in 
the year seventeen hundred and seventy seven, 
having first made his last will and testament, by 
which he divided all his real and personal estate 



30 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



to his wife Catherine during her life, if she should 
remain a widow, but if she married, then to be 
sold and the proceeds thereof to be distributed 
among his children. That the said Catherine 
Butman is yet alive and remains a widow. That 
John Butman being the eldest son of the deceased 
and having the legal estate in the said land on the 
twenty ninth Day of August seventeen hundred 
and ninety two, with Sarah, his wife, executed a 
deed conveying unto the petitioner (who married 
Amelia one of the daughters of the aforesaid An- 
drew Butman deceased) the said land resurveyed 
as aforesaid called Partnership, for the purpose 
of enabling her to obtain a patent and afterwards 
carrying into effect the will of the said Andrew 
Butman deceased. The petitioner therefore 
prayed that a patent might be given to him for 
the purpose aforesaid and the facts appearing to 
the Chancellor to be truly stated it was thereupon 
ordered that patent should be issued accordingly. 
The State of Maryland Doth therefore hereby 
and confirm unto him the said Christian Voyant 
the aforesaid land resurveyed as aforesaid called 
Partnership, lying in Washington county afore- 
said. Beginning for the outlines thereof at the 
end of the sixth line of the original and running 

thence with said land reversed the two ? 

courses viz: south twenty five degrees east twenty 
six perches south eighty six degrees east forty five 
perches then south eight degrees east forty perches 
south fifty six degrees east thirteen perches north 
eight degrees west ten perches south seventy one 
degrees east twenty two perches north eighty four 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 31 



degrees east fourteen perches north thirty four 
degrees east thirty two perches south eighty seven 
degrees east one hundred and twenty one perches 
south seventy degrees east seventy five perches 
north fifty degrees west thirty perches north 
twenty two degrees west sixteen perches north 
seventy degrees west eighty four perches north 
eighty seven degrees west twelve perches south 
twenty degrees west five perches north eighty 
seven degrees west twenty two perches south 
twenty nine degrees west twenty perches south 
seventy six degrees east fifteen perches then with 
straight line to the beginning containing one hun- 
dred and forty two acres and one quarter of an 
acre according to the certificate of resurvey there- 
of taken and returned into the land office bearing 
Date the eighteenth Day of December seventeen 
hundred and seventy one and there remaining 
together with all rights, profits, benefits and priv- 
ileges thereunto belonging, To Have and to Hold 
the same unto him the said Christian Voyant 
and his heirs to the uses in the last will of Andrew 
Butman deceased. Given under the great seal 
of the State of Maryland this twenty ninth Day 
of Septemb^ seventeen hundred and ninety two. 

WITNESS: 

SEAL OF The Honorable 

MARYLAND. ALEXANDER CORTES HaNSON, 

Esquire Chancellor. 

.The above document is a parchment 12 x 14 
inches, written in a neat English hand and is 
now in my possession. E. C. W. 



32 CHRISTIAN W\"ANDT AND POSTERITY 



We have failed to find when Wyandt arrived 
in America. He may have arrived with Putman. 
Again he could have been one of the Hessian 
soldiers, captured at Trenton, on that memorial 
Christmas night, by Gen. Washington, and im- 
prisoned in the Old Colonial Barracks, yet stand- 
ing, in Frederick City, Md. Five hundred Hes- 
sians were imprisoned there. These soldiers 
came from that part of Germany which was the 
scene of the birth of the Schneider and Wiegand 
or Weyandt families and when released settled 
in Maryland. I have failed to find the name 
Christian Voyant, or Weyandt, or Wyandt, on 
any of the port records. In those days the name 

of every German who arrived was given a variety 
of variations, arising from the attempts at pro- 
nouncing and spelling them in English, and vise 
versa. We find Christian Weyandt's name spelled 
two different ways in his will. I have found it 
spelled four or five different ways on court and 
state records made at the same period. An author 
tells me he now has just fifty variations of the name. 

In Rupp's Thirty Thousand Names we find the 
name Wyandt and several variations among the 
earliest emigrants. As early as 1635 persons by 
name of Wynd and Wynne, Winne and Wynn, 
sailed from London to various British points. 
From the list of the Germans who arrived in Phil- 
adelphia from Rotterdam we get the following: 

Arrived, Aug. 24, 1728, eighty families of Pal- 
atines, about 205 persons, among them Johann 
Weygandt, Johann Ror, Jacob Brunner, Johannes 
Kitzmiller, and Hans Marten Miller . (These are 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 33 



familiar names of to-day 'in this section of Mary- 
land, and represent the oldest families.) 

Aug. 19, 1725, came one Wendel Wyant, Ultmer 
Schneble, and Henrich Snebvele. Sept. 21, 1731, 
came Joh. Jacob Wyandt, Jacob Rohr, Johannes 
Roth, etc., in all 269 persons on ship. 

Sept. 18, 1733, one hundred and twenty-six 
persons arrived in Pennsylvania Merchant Vessel 
from Leyden and Plymouth, among them John 
Philip Weynandt, Johann George Grimm. 

Sept. II, 1738, arrived from Rotterdam and 
Dover, 320 persons, among them Melchior Yand, 
Johannes Rohrer, Johan and Frid Schneyder. 

Nov. 15, 1740, from Rotterdam 265 persons, 
George Viantt, John Georg Schneider. 

Sept. 26, 1743, came Michael Wyland and Hans 
Leonhart Wyland. ^ 

Sept. 7, 1748, Rev. Joh. Albert Weygand. [A 
sketch of this person was published in 1897, in 
Charles Weyandt's Family Record, N. Y.] 

Sept. 15, 1748, Joh. Lorentz Weygandt. 

Sept. 14, 1749, 312 persons arrived from Rotter- 
dam, last of Cowes, among them: Weygand 
Schneider (!!) [what is in a name, anyhow?,] 
Christ Schneider, and Christian Baker. 

Sept. 26, 1749, among 277 persons was Joh. 
Philip Wygant. 

Sept. 26, 1749, from Rotterdam (same day as 
above), 563 persons arrived, among them, Johan 
Peter Weyand. 

Sept. 26, 1752, came Johannes Weyant. 

Nov. 2, 1752, Nicolas Weyant. 



34 CHRISTIAN WYAXDT AND POSTERITY 



Sept. 30, 1754, Jacob Weynant and Jacob 
Weynant, Jr. 

Nov. 7, 1754, from Amsterdam, 11 Catholics, 
120 Protestants, among them, Johannes Wey- 
gandt. 

Oct. 5. 1767, Joh. Nickolaus Weyandt. 

Nov. 3, 1772, came Weyandt Rohr!! [Again, 
what's in a name! The Wyandts and Rohrs, 
or Rohrers, have married, and inter-married, for 
ages, here.] From the foregoing we have nothing 
of Christian Wyandt's arrival, but " as a floating 
buoy tells where the anchor lies hidden" so do 
these names, and the locality of their origin tell 
us from whence Christian Wyandt came, either 
directly or indirectly. That region of Bavaria, 
Prussia, was the home of the Wyandt, Schneider, 
Baker, Schnebley and Rohrer families, all of 
which were represented by the pioneers in this 
part of Maryland — which was then the "great 
frontier." 

Christian Weyandt was a wine maker, and was 
early engaged in that business after purchasing 
the Putman estate. His press and distill, spring 
house, and dwelling, all of which were erected of 
lime stone, stand to-day as in yore, and bid fair, 
if not lowered by man, or unnatural causes, to 
stand another century. The grapes for the press 
were grown on " Hills Dale," the land now in the 
farms of Frank T. Hagan and David H. Snively. 
"Hills Dale" made up the western horizon, lying 
high against the western sky, and to this day 
bears its name, but bringing forth peaches that 
have made the state famous. It is our wish to give 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 35 



with this volume, if possible, a picture of this 
panoramic view — a modern Eden. We shall 
attempt giving pictures also of Weyandt's stone 
buildings. The best historical account of Chris- 
tian Weyandt's work is given in his will, a copy 
of which we give as made by the writer of this 
sketch, July, 1906, from the records now on file 
in the Hagerstown, Md., Court House. 

LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF CHRISTIAN 
WEYANDT, DECEASED 

(Rec'd Dec. 31" 181 1 recorded Mar. 22" 1831. 
See act of assembly Dec. Session 1830, Chap. 
41.) 

Christian Weyandt in the County of Washington 
and State of Maryland. 

This is my first and last Will and Testament. 

I will that my son in law Jacob Schnebly and 
my son in law Jacob Schneider, shall be my exec- 
utors of my estate both real and personal, to sell 
to the highest bidder and payer, they shall have 
my full right and power. If any of the land must 
be sold, to give Deeds and obtain Deeds from 
Joseph Chapline for the one hundred acres of Land 
which Jacob Schneider bought of him of Hills 
dales and the vineyard for which Land said Adam 
Schneider has in full and over paid him, and I 
Christian Weyandt have paid in full the said 
Adam Schneider for the said one hundred acres 
of Land of Hillsdales and the vineyard and if 
Joseph Chapline will not voluntarily give a Deed 



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36 CHRISTIAN W^^ANDT AND POSTERITY 



for said Land then my said executors shall appeal 
to the Laws of the Land and make him give one and 
further my executors shall have the right (if the 
neighbors who have of my Land within the enclos- 
ures of the Tract named Rich Hill and partner- 
ship and shall not give peaceable possession of 
the same), then my said executors shall make 
them give up said Lands by law and the expense 
shall be paid out of my estate — and it is my will 
that, my wife Emmily shall have the upper and 
lower rooms in the stone House and half of the 
spring house, a quarter of an acre of ground for a 
Garden, and as much room in the cellar as she 
shall have occasion for to put in what articles 
she may have and a cow stable the lower and 
upper part — and she and the children who- are 
yet with her shall have free egress and ingress 
from and to said House and the right of walking 
or driving from to and through the yard, and this 
right my wife Emmily shall have during her life 
unless she again marries, in which case the above 
named privileges shall cease, in lieu thereof my 
Executors shall pay into her Hands annually 
fifty Dollars out of my estate, out of the third 
payment which Jacob Schneider has to make 
they shall pay her (if she is again married) first 
payment of fifty Dollars and so on out of every 
payment he has to make, she shall have annually 
her fifty Dollars during her life, the surplus which 
Jacob Schneider has to pay over these sums, shall 
be equally divided between two of my children 
as will hereafter follow. The two first payments 
which Jacob Schneider has to make shall in the 




JOHN II. SXAVKLY 

(No. 49) 




MRS. J. H. SNAVELY 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 37 



first place be divided among my four daughters, 
that is my Daughters Susanna and Elizabeth 
shall have the first payment each of fifty pounds 
and my Daughter Annia Maria and Dina shall 
have the second payment each fifty pounds lawful 
money of Maryland as all my other children have 
Land, under price this is the reason why my 
Daughters shall have these sums in the first place. 
Farther my wife Emmily shall have the one hun- 
dred acres named Hillsdales and the Vineyard 
which I have of Joseph Chapline and the fifty 
acres which I have from the heirs of Christian 
Roth during her life (provided she does not again 
marry but if she again marries she shall no longer 
have any right to this Land but it shall be divided 
between my two sons and given into their posses- 
sion forever and it shall be divided for them in 
the middle, the beginning I think will be near 
where Partnership has its beginning at Rich Hill 
and from the beginning the fifty acres of Rich 
Hill and the one hundred acres of Hills dales and 
the vineyard shall be divided in the middle into 
the other side line of Hills dales at the mountain, 
the lower part to Jacob Schneider into the Land 
(Lane?) shall be the line between Jacob Schneider 
and my son Christian. Jacob Schneider will 
probably receive about (no figures) acres of the 
fifty which I have from Roth's heirs. My son Chris- 
tian shall have the right to the water or who after 
him shall have this Land in possession for three 
days and three nights in one week if it is water 
time, and my son Christian, or who shall after 
him be in possession of this land shall not assist 



38 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



in working at the dam and help to keep it in order 
then he or they shall have no right to the water, 
the water right shall be forever, but as many 
years as the possessor of this Land shall refuse to 
assist in keeping the dam in repair so many years 
shall he be deprived of the right to the water. 
Jacob Schneider or he who after him may have 
the Land in possession on which this dam is sit- 
uated, whenever he intends repairing this dam 
shall give two or three days' notice to my son 
Christian or his successor my son Christian shall 
have of the Hills dales and the vineyard fifty 
acres and of Rich Hill twenty four acres and a 
half together about seventy-five acres but if 
Joseph Chapline should measure out more than 
one hundred acres then my sons Christian and 
Simon shall divide the same equally the Land of 
my son Christian shall be valued at sixteen dol- 
lars per acre and if his patrimony shall not amount 
to as much he shall pay thirty dollars a year to 
those children who have yet to receive (when he 
is of age and has the Land in possession. My son 
Simon shall have the upper part adjoining Charles 
Huberock viz: of Rich Hills twenty four acres and 
of Hills dales and the vineyard fifty acres (if 
Chapline does not measure out more than one 
hundred acres), together with seventy four acres 
and it shall be valued to him at fourteen Dollars 
per acre and if his patrimony shall not amount 
to so much he shall pay to those children who 
have yet to receive, thirty Dollars a year (when 
he is of age and shall have the Land in possession 
and when both my sons shall have paid their 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 39 

Land in full then shall my full right and title 
be vested in them, and if they should not wish 
to receive these Lands then my executors shall 
sell it and pay them their patrimony. The i6th 
Feby, 181 1, have I Christian Weyandt sold to 
Jacob Schneider the Land which I bought from 
the~Tieirs of Andrew Buttman in Rich Hill fifty 
acres and in Partnership ninety two acres and a 
quarter making together one hundred and forty 
two acres and a quarter at the rate of twelve 
pounds lawful money of Maryland per acre and ' 
twelve months after my death his heirs have to 
pay to my heirs one hundred pounds lawful money 
and so on every year until the whole of the 
Land shall be paid and when the said Jacob 
Schneider shall have paid the said Land in full 
to my heirs then my full right and title to the said 
Land shall be vested in him the said Jacob Schnei- 
der and his heirs and not before, and if it should 
so happen that he or they could not make up one 
of the payments, then they shall have power to 
sell as much Land as will meet such payment but 
not more, as Daniel Geeting has la7id of the fifty 
acres of Rich Hill and if it is not bought together 
again then the said Jacob Schneider or his heirs 
need not pay for such Land but only pay as many 
twelve pounds as they receive acres, — The first 
payment viz: — one hundred pounds shall be di- 
vided between my two daughters Susanna and 
Elizabeth fifty pounds to each and the second 
payment shall be divided between my daughters 
Anna Maria and Dina fifty pounds to each. In the 
first instance out of the third payment my wife 



40 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 

Emmily shall have her fifty Dollars (if she is again 
married) but if she is not again marreid or dead 
then my Daughters Catherine and Susanna shall 
each have fifty pounds. The fourth payment 
shall be divided between my daughters Elizabeth 
and Anna Maria each fifty pounds, the fifth pay- 
ment shall be divided between my daughters 
Catherine and Dina to each fifty pounds and so 
on until the Land is paid for in full and each of 
my five Daughters shall have their patrimony — 
but if my wife Emmily is still living or again mar- 
ried then each of the girls will only receive, instead 
of the fifty pounds forty pounds twelve shillings 
and six pence. My ten children shall have equal 
shares of my property in Washington County, 
State of Maryland and in Milford Township Somer- 
set County, State of Pennsylvania. My son 
Jacob, my son John, my daughter Catherine, my 
son Henry, my Daughter Susanna, my Daughter 
Elizabeth, my Daughter Anna Maria, my Daugh- 
ter Dina, my son Christian and my son Simon 
shall all have equal when the four girls shall first 
have their two hundred pounds in advance, and it 
is my will that my three sons shall have the Land 
in Milford Township, Somerset County and State 
of Pennsylvania, my sjon Jacob shall have of 
"Sharpwork" one hundred and Twenty one acres 
and three quarters acres, and of "Lingan" 
fifty four acres together one hundred & seventy 
five acres and three quarters of an acre, and he 
shall give for each acre four dollars, to be de- 
ducted from his patrimony of my estate, and if 
his patrimony shall not amount to so much he 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 41 



shall pay annually to those children who have 
yet to receive thirty dollars as soon as my estate 
shall be settled up. My son John shall have 
"Emsworth" that is one hundred and twelve and 
a half acres and of " Sharpwork" he shall have 
forty acres that part which shall best suit to the 
other tract together one hundred and fifty two 
acres and a half he shall give for each acre four 
dollars to be deducted from his patrimony and 
if his share of my property shall not amount to 
so much he shall pay annually to those children 
who have yet to receive thirty Dollars as soon 
as my estate is settled up. My son Henry shall 
have "Ecbatana", viz: Two hundred and ninety 
two acres and a half he shall give for each acre two 
dollars to be deducted from his patrimony, and 
and if his legacy patrimony or share of my estate 
should not amount to so much he shall in like 
manner as the others pay annually to those chil- 
dren who have yet to receive thirty Dollars, as 
soon as my estate shall be settled up, and if one 
or the other of my above named sons shall still 
have to pay a farther sum to those children who 
have received less and yet claim so soon as he or 
they pay up to the others in full then my full right 
and title shall be vested in them for ever to the 
Lands which I have herein willed unto them. If 
my son wishes to have a church on his Lands he 
shall give one and a half acres of Land for which 
he shall pay nothing. I give it free for ever but 
it shall not be a Contention church it shall be free 



42 CHRISTIAN WA^ANDT AND POSTERITY 



for every pious preacher that preaches the Gospel. 
I sign this with my Hand before — 

Christian Wyandt, [seal] 
December 21, 181 1. 
Witnesses: 

Casper Snavely, 
Adam Snavely, 
Jacob Snavely. 

Christian Wyandt in the County of Washington 
and State of Maryland this is my first and last 
Will and Testament concerning my personal 
property. 

I will that my wife Emmily shall have the ten- 
plate stove and a feather Bed and Bedstead two 
Blankets and all the other necessary articles to 
make a complete Bed, further she shall have two 
cows, four sheep these things she shall have in 
advance and afterwards the third part of my per- 
sonal property with the other tv/o thirds and the 
residue notes. My debts shall be paid and if 
anything is left after the payment of my debts 
it shall be equally divided among my three un- 
married daughters and after deducted from their 
patrimony or share of my estate and of the money 
which I shall leave Elizabeth, Anna Maria, and 
Dina it shall be equally divided among them, and 
it is my will that my wife Emmily and the un- 
married children shall have all the grain I shall 
leave whether wheat, Rye, corn, Buckwheat or 
oats, whether it is in the Barn or in the Mill in the 
ground or in the fields or on the loft; they shall 
have it all to live upon and cloth themselves. 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 43 



I sign this with my Hand before — 
Witnesses: 

Casper Snavely, Christian Wyandt, [seal] 
Adam Snavely, 
Jacob Snavely. 

On the 31st day of December 1811 came Jacob 
Schnebley and Jacob Wyandt and made oath 
that this is the whole will of Christian Wyandt 
late of said County deceased, that hath come to 
their hands and possession and that they do not 
know of any other. At the same time came 
Casper Snavely, Adam Schnebly, and Jacob 
Schnebly and made oath on the Holy Evangels 
of Almighty God that they did see the Testator 
herein named sign and seal this will that they 
heard him publish pronounce and declare the 
same to be his last Will and Testament. That at 
the time of his so doing he was to the best of their 
apprehensions of sound and disposing mind 
memory and understanding and that they sub- 
scribed their names to this will in the presence & 
at the request of the Testator and in the presence 
of each other. 

Certified by — George C. Smoot, Reg. 

Washington County, to wit: 

Charles G. Boeustler having been appointed 
by the Orphans' Court to make a faithful and cor- 
rect translation of the Testament and last will of 
Christian Wyandt late of said County Deceased 
written in the German language and exhibited to 
this court for probation returns to court the an- 



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nexed sheets Nos. i, 2, 3, 4, & 5 and makes oath 
on the Holy Evangels of Almighty God in Open 
Court that the several sheets numbered as afore- 
said, a faithful & correct translation as to the 
substance and meaning thereof. 

Certified in Open Court: 

Test. George C. Smoot, Reg. 

In Testimony that the aforegoing is a true copy 
I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed the 
public seal of my office this seventh day of March, 
1812. 

George C. Smoot, Reg. 

Note. — See Act of Assembly passed December 
session 1830 chapter 41 authorizing this record. 

As we read over both the Deed and Will we are 
forced to smile, they seem odd and misplaced — 
times have wrought such changes! But we must 
remember that in those days there were no armed 
constabulary in every corner to hold down the 
rebellious spirit; no league of lawyers running 
rampant through the country seeking "trade," 
a man's Deed and Will were law, from which there 
was no appeal. 

But this odd language was in rote in those days. 
Even in the newspapers. I give here some ex- 
tracts taken from the files of The Maryland Ga- 
zette, published in Annapolis, Md.: 



Annapolis, May 31, 1745. 
"To be Sold — A Likely Servant woman, that 
has 6 years and a half to serve: She is strong 
and healthy, can do any Household Work, and 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 45 



understands Weaving. Enquire of the Printer 
hereof. N. B. — Her principal Failing is Drunk- 
enness.." 

"Advertisement. — Whereas John Powell was 
advertised last week in this paper as a Runaway; 
but being only gone into the country a cider- 
drinking, and being returned again to his master's 
service; These are therefore to acquaint all Gentle- 
men and others who have any watches or clocks 
to repair, that they may have them done in the 
best Manner and at reasonable Rates. 

William Roberts. 



Aug. 14, 1760. — The Small Pox is now only in 
one House in this Town, in the back Part of it; 
and we can assure those who assert otherwise, 
that THEY LIE under a mistake. 

To Christian and Mary "Amelia" Wyandt were 
born ten children: (I) Jacob, (II) John, (III) 
Catherine, (IV) Henry, (V) Susan, (VI) Elizabeth, 
(VII) Mary, (VIII) Christena, (IX) Christian, (X) 
Simon. (I) Jacob Wyandt, born in 1779, settled 
in Somerset County, Pa., in 18 15, emigrated to 
Stark County, Ohio. Died in 1838. He married 

'Magdalena Brubacher [b. 1785, d. 1864]. To them 
eight children were born: (I) Joseph [1807-1843J, 
married Jane Reed; (2) Christian, born 1809, died 

jii_JiVilmot, O., May 6, 1891, aged 82 years, 3 
months, and 22 days. He lived with his mother 
after his father's death until her death in 1864. 



46 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



He was a merchant and was connected with his 
brother, D. B. Wyandt, in the firm known as C. & 
D. B. Wyandt. They were also engaged in farming 
and the foundry business. He was also a partner 
with his brother in the MachineShops and Foundry 
in Wilmot under the name,Wyandts,Putman &Son. 
At the death of his younger brother Daniel, 
upon whom he had depended as superintendent 
of his business, he retired from active service to 
his farm and the care of his lamented brother's 
family, selling his business investments. In 
religious and political matters he was a strong 
man and was one of the foremost men of his com- 
munity. His kind and charitable disposition 
occasioned the people to join his brother's chil- 
dren in calling him ever "Uncle Christ." He 
never married, probably due in early life to his 
wish to be near in the support of his widowed 
mother, and then the following year after her 
demise the death of his beloved brother Daniel 
left a family for his fatherly care and worthy 
occupants for his home. His funeral sermon 
was delivered by Dr. O. Cone, President of Buck- 
tel College, Akron, and the services were attended 
by an unusual large gathering. (3) Lena, 181 1- 
1862, married Elias King, among the descendants 
being E. K. Trauger, Attorney-at-Law, Plymouth, 
Ohio, the writer visiting Mr. Trauger in July, 1906, 
in regard to this work. (4) Elizabeth, 1814-1889, 
married Samuel Fenner. Their son Joseph, who 
served in the Civil War, lives at Shiloh, Ohio; (5) 
Sarah, 1817-1857, married Henry McGinnis; (6) 
Daniel, 1820-1865, married Catherine Griffith. 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 47 



Their children are Cyrus F., occupying the old 
home, at Wilmot, Ohio; Walter G. and Charles 
C, at Abiline, Kan. — the wife of Charles Wyandt 
being Mary Grace Parker, granddaughter of Maj. 
Dudley W. Rhodes, Washington, D. C. — he is 
engaged in insurance business; Winfield Scott, at 
the age of 18, killed in the battle at Marietta, Ga., 
being a member of the 19th Ohio V. I. — at Wil- 
mont there is a Camp of Sons of Veterans known 
as the Scott Wyandt Camp, No. 23, S. of V.; 
Mary, wife of Dr. Alpheus Gans; Lydia, wife of 
Dr. Cullen Wolf; Sallie, wife of Dr. Louis E. 
Menuez. We are fortunate enough to be able to 
give a picture of Daniel B. Wyand, the father, 
Scott, and the three daughters with their doctor 
husbands. 

We have spoken of Daniel as the associate 
of his brother Christian in business. (7) Mary, 
1823, was still living at last reports. She was 
married to John Frease, Napoleon, Ohio. (8) 
Rachel, 1826, married David Stambaugh; burnt 
to death by oil stove explosion; lived in New 
Philadelphia, Ohio. 

John Wyandt, son of Christian and Amelia (Put- 
man) Wyandt, born in Washington County, Md., 
Dec. 6, 1783. Removed to Somerset County, Pa., 
then to Harrison. County, Ohio, about 18 17. At age 
of thirty married Magdaline Warner, b. 1795, in Ma- 
ryland, her mother being a cousin to President Wil- 
liam Henry Harrison. John Wyandt went to Ohio 
by wagon and pack horse, settled on a tract in Mon- 
roe Township, Harrison County, he dying there Feb. 



48 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



25, 1848, and his wife Feb. 12, 1868. To them were 
born six children: (i) John, (2) Jacob, (3) Daniel, 
(4) Abraham, (5) Christena, (6) Mary A. Among 
the descendants now living are Judge D. D. Heller, 
Decatur, Ind; Mrs. W. H. Host, and Mrs. W. B. 
Penn, Bowerstown, Ohio, all children of (5) Mar}^ A. 

(Ill) Catherine, b. 1784, third child of 
Christian and Amelia (Putman) Wyandt, married 
Jacob Schneider (Snyder), b. 1777, son of Adam 
Schneider, who married Catherine Putman. They 
were, therefore, first cousins. Adam Schneider 
was born in Germany in 1746, and was in all 
probabilities, acquainted with the Putman and 
Wyandt families there, if not related to them. 
They, like as not, joined hands in venturing to 
the New World, and clung together, as did their 
children later in going West. The progenitor of 
the Schneider family was Michael Schneider, Ger- 
hardtsbrum Zueibruchen Landgraranate of Licken- 
ger. Dukedom of Miedlinger Germany. The Sch- 
neider ancestors are buried in Babacher Church 
;yard, beyond Gerhardtsbrum. Michael Schneider 
married Barbara — . They had three sons. 

, -Of these, Michael, married Anna Barbara Trout- 
man. Michael and Anna Schneider had children: 
(i) Valentine; (2) Adam, born Dec. 31, i747, ar- 
rived in Philadelphia Sept. 17, 1773, married Cath- 
erine Putman, Nov. i, 1775; (4) Henry, born 1763, 
single, died Apr. 18, 1816; (5) Jacob, born 1769, 
■ married Susanna Heiple, died 1844; (6) Barbara, 
married Adam Hoch; (7) Anna Ottilia, married 

. Hoch. 



MARYLAND. PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 49 



Valentine Schneider married a daughter of Adam 
Heintz, Heintz Mills, Germany. Anna Ottilia mar- 
ried Adam Hoch, lived in homestead in Gerhardts- 
brum. Their descendants own the Old Homestead 
today and they have been visited by their Ameri- 
can Schneider cousins, taking greatest pride in en- 
tertaining them. They stand in the highest rank, 
one of the boys now being Burgomaster of that 
place. Schneider arrived in America in 1773, ac- 
cording to his Bible. He was a tailor and was em- 
ployed in Baltimore for a few years. In 1780 he 
returned to the Putman home, where in 1775 he 
had married Catherine. Tradition says he was a 
tailor, but history has no such fact. This notion 
may have been conceived from the name Der 
Schneider, the name which, in English, is "The 
Tailor." 

We have every reason to think that while Adam 
Schneider lived in Baltimore, he returned to Ger- 
hardtsbrum, Germany his old home and brought 
back to this country with him his two brothers 
Henry and Jacob. Henry the age of twenty-one 
years and Jacob a lad of fifteen. They landed in 
this country in 1784. 

Just when Adam Schneider and his two brothers 
went west as far as Somerset is not recorded, but in 
1787 Woolerick Bruner entered into an agreement 
with Adam Schneider to sell Adam Schneider of 
Washington County in the State of Maryland two 
hundred acres of land and upwards, part of which 
is the said Bruner's dwelling place which Bruner 
had bought of Harman Husband, and is at the pres- 
ent time the home of Rupert Kuniwell. Adam 



50 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



Schneider paid to Woolrich Bruner"the sum of one 
hundred pounds and one house and lot in Baltimore 
Town on Howard Street joining the widow Rank- 
les, and occupied by Jacob Reader. This agree- 
ment is now in the possession of F. G. Parker, 
Johnstown, Pa. The deed is on the records of Bed- 
ford County. This ground was laid out by Adam 
Schneider September 12, 1795 for a town in con- 
nection with Peter Ankeny who owned the ground 
south of what is now Main Street. The orignal 
plot of this town (being Somerset) is owned by 
F. G. Parker, Somerset, Pa. The town was first 
called Mulfordtown, but in the same year the name 
was changed to Somerset. About fifteen or twen- 
ty houses were erected in Somerset at this time, 

1795- 

Adam Schneider was a man of means and great 
enterprise, and at once realized the need of four 
things necessary for a prosperous town; a Church, 
a School, a place of Justice, and a burial ground. 
Consequently on the original plot of the town 
(1795) ground was set apart and donated for the 
above named purposes, and they have all come 
down to us intact (1909). Except the old Luth- 
eran Church which was sold by the Lutheran de- 
nomination (with the permission of the Adam 
Schneider heirs) to buy another place for the new 
Church. The old Church is now the property of 
Mr. Isaiah Pile, and used as a dwelling. One has 
but to look at this quaint old place to realize that 
our forefathers believed in plenty of room, solidity 
of structure and simplicity. 

Whether there was a School-house placed upon 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 51 



the lots donated we are not able to say, but we 
have a record of two additional lots joining those 
donated sold by Adam Schneider to the Trustees 
of the Somerset Academy in the year 1816 for the 
sum of one hundred and tw^enty-nine dollars. 
Jacob Schneider was Secretary of the Board of 
Trustees at this time and in the same year adver- 
tised for bids for the building of the Academy. In 
1897 the handsome Union School Building was 
built on these lots. The Court House speaks for 
itself and shows up it's magnificence and grandeur 
which if the donator of the ground if he were living 
could say with all of the descendants-well and 
beautifully done. 

By the U. S. Pension roll for Revolutionary Ser- 
vice, Adam Schneider received pension 1820- 1825. 
He served as a private in the Penna. Line, as did 
one Henry and John Snyder and John Putman. 
One John Wygant was in Capt. Klotz's Flying 
Camp. One John Weyant was an adj. -gen. A 
German Regiment was raised by Capt. Jacob Brun- 
ner. 

Adam and Catherine (Putman) Schneider had 
fourteen children: )i) Jacob, b. 1777: (2) Susan, b, 
1778; (3) Adam, b. 1781; (4) Rosana, b. 1783; (5) 
Henry, b. 1784; (6) Elizabeth, b. 1787; (7) John 
b. 1789, d. 1789; (8) Magdalena b. 1790; (9) John 2d 
b. 1792; (10) Peter, b. 1794; (11) Catherine, b. 1795 
(12) Ailla, b. 1797; (13) Maria, b. 1799; (14) Joseph 
b. 1802. We can only trace the one child of Adam 
Schneider which interests this sketch. 

Jacob Schneider was born at the old Snyder 
Homestead at Eakles' Mills, Md., in 1777; died 



S2 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



May 31, 1869, at the same place, aged 92 years, 
3 months, 14 days. He married Catherine 

Wyandt, his cousin, in 1801. She was born Aug. 
20, 1784, and died Sept. 30, 187 1, aged 87 years, 
I month, 10 days. She was all her life a member 
of the United Brethren Church. Jacob Snyder 
joined the Lutheran Church when converted at 
19. During the last 20 years of his life he was 
totally blind. When the War of 181 2 broke out 
he enlisted and went to serve his country. He 
resided all his life in this county excepting ten 
years spent in Somerset county, where he owned 
900 acres of land. He and his wife frequently 
rode on horseback to Somerset, and also made a 
trip by same way to Ohio. The children of Jacob 
and Catheirne (Wyandt) Schneider were: (i) 
Christian, b. 1802, married Virginia Wright. He 
was a weaver and conducted a factory on the 
farm now owned by Mrs. Elizabeth Snyder, part 
of the old homestead. He removed to Indiana, 
thence to Illinois. His descendants are numer- 
ous, among them three sons: (i) Christian, 
living in Veedersburg, Ind., now more than three 
score and ten; (2) Alfred C, Estherville, la., 
farmer, was a member of the Illinois Volunteers 
and was in several battles; (3) Milton, living in 
Loda, 111. Christian Snyder of Veedersburg has 
several children living in that vicinity, among 
them being Czar Snyder, who visited Maryland 
in 1902 with his father, and attended the family 
reunion held by the W^yands and Snyders, in 
Keedysville. Milton Snyder has a son Oscar, and 
two daughters, all three living in Iowa. He has 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 53 



married a second time. A daughter of Christian 
Snyder, Sr., married Dr. McBride of Illinois. 
She has been dead for some years. Her daughter, 
Mrs. Tilly Clark, lives in Gibson City and has a 
family among which is Miss Clarenda, a school 
teacher of Danville, 111., and Mrs. Dr. Mclntyre of 
Chicago. Another daughter married John Webb, 
Paxton, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. Webb are the 
parents of fourteen children, nine of which are 
girls. We called on the family at their home 
July II, 1904, and we'll never forget the scene in 
that home that Sunday evening as those girls 
surrounded an organ and, with other instruments, 
converted that home into — not a church — but 
man's paradise on earth. Mr. and Mrs. Webb sat 
in their easy chairs oblivious to all earthly sor- 
rows. A photo of the four older girls appears in 
this work. Christian Snyder, Sr., died at age of 
81 years, on his farm in Ford County, 111. 

(2) Rosanna, b. Nov. i, 1804, married John 
Geeting, a farmer who went to Indiana where 
they died. Among their children were Henry, 
Isaiah, and Catherine. 

(3) John, b. Aug. 30, 1806, married Eliza Ann 
Brenner, farmed the homestead awhile then re- 
moved to Ohio, dying at West Alexander, leaving 
children: Aaron, Elias, a physician, Jacob S., 
and Maretta, who married Elias Mumma. 

(4) Elizabeth, b. June 18, 1809, married Thomas 
Wright, a weaver who carried on the business on 
the Snyder Homestead, and at Porterstown (three 
miles west of his home). He removed to Fountain 
County, Ind., where he bought and cleared forest 



54 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



land upon which he lived until his death. He^ 
left one son, Ezra, who retained his farm and who 
married Susan, daughter of Simon and Rebecca 
(Geeting) Wyand. Ezra Wright is living still at 
Marshall Field, Ind., at the age of 76. I visited 
him in 1904 on my way from Loda, Bismarck, to 
Veedersburg in company of Milton Snyder, we 
driving the distance. 

(5) Susanna, b. April i, 181 1 ; 

(6) Ezra J., b. March i, 1813, married Sarah A, 
Staubs. Ezra Snyder was a store keeper at Buena 
Vista, now Eakle's Mills, from 185 1 to 1857. I 
have letters written in Baltimore which were sent 
by post to him. They have no envelopes. They 
were folded neatly and sealed with wax, or tied 
with a string. The name and address w^ere writ- 
ten on the back as we write on an envelope. There 
is no stamp but a post date. One of them is — 

"Ezra J. Snyder, Merchant, 
Buena Vista, 
Near Mt. Look Out, 
• Washington County, 

Md." 
The house occupied by him as a store was the 
first erected in this section. It is only one story 
and a half but the half is ceiled in old New Eng- 
land fashion. There is a large basement with 
two rooms. This house is the same in which F, 
and D. H. Wyand, and a score of others, got their 
start. It was the business place before M. C. 
Eakle erected the present store and warehouse 
with the coming of the steam car. I was in the 
house this morning (April 7, 1909). Men are dig- 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 55 



ging a well in the rear and, I am grieved to say, 
though in a most excellent state of preservation 
the house is doomed, and ere another moon it 
will be in history only, and a modern dwelling 
adorning its foundation. Ezra vSnyder returned 
to the old Homestead of his father (the Putman- 
Wyandt place) and devoted the remainder of his 
days to farming, and died there in 1888, having 
fallen in the barn of my father's home nearly a 
year before, sustaining a compound fracture of 
hip. He was 75 at the time and though he made 
a heroic effort to recover age was against him. 
His wife was a daughter of Jacob and Catherine 
(Blessing) Staubs, a relative of George P. Bles- 
sing, the famous hero of " Highlandtown" during 
the Civil War. To Ezra and Sarah Snyder were 
born ten children: (i) Catherine, died young; (2) 
Jacob M., now living and enjoying his three score 
and ten in Estherville, Iowa. He was for years 
a real estate dealer and sold much of the wild land 
in that section. He enlisted in Co. D, Ninety- 
Second Illinois Volunteers and was with the army 
of Cumberland. He was wounded in the battle 
of Chickamauga, Ga., Sept. 19, 1863. He was 
transferred in 1864, and mustered out at Rock's 
Island, July 16, 1865 as Second Corporal. He mar- 
ried Mary A. Rinehart, of Virginia, and they have 
three children: Fidelia, (Mrs. Bert. Miller), Esth- 
ervill Laura; (Mrs. J. Utz), on her father's farm 
near Estherville; Annie (Mrs. Davis), on another 
of her father's farms near Estherville. Each have 
several children. They were visited by the 
writer in 1904, and together we fished in the Des 



56 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



Moines on the farms. (3) David O., who with 
two maiden sisters now reside in the old Putman 
house. He has resided on the farm most of his 
life. He is single, and for twenty-five years 
taught school. He has been engaged extensively 
in the raising of sheep. " Uncle D. O." is a great 
church man and Sunday school worker. It is a 
bad day, indeed, that keeps him from church 
twice on Sunday. As a rule he is there three times 
often driving to the country churches 15 or 20 
miles before and between services. He is known 
in many parts of Maryland in this work, and there 
has seldom been a Sunday School Institute that 
did not request him to help them. He has trav- 
eled through the West, being in Ohio, Indiana 
and Illinois, the past year to attend the Reunion 
held in Canton, Ohio. You are indebted, my 
reader, to him for much of this volume. Not only 
his untiring efforts and continued urging me on 
during recent years, but when I was a tot of 3 and 
4 and up, those years were spent by me on the 
old Putman and Wyandt farm with my grand- 
father, Ezra J. Snyder, and under my never- 
ending questions from unsatisfied curiosity "Un- 
cle D. O." never wearied. It gave him pleasure 
to explain and now that acorn of thirty years ago 
has grown into this volume. (4) Elizabeth, mar- 
ried Martin Snyder (not a relative). They had 
three children: (i) Katherine, (2) Edgar, con- 
ductor on the Rock Island R. R. (Iowa); (3) Har- 
vey M., commercial traveler, resides with his wid- 
owed mother. MartinSnyderdiedin 1880. (5) Ro- 
sanna, married Nicodemus Zimmerman (second 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 57 



cousin), now deceased. They had five children: 
(1) Benjamin, a B. & O. fireman, who was killed 
in 1896, leaving a widow and five children; (2) 
Oliver L, foreman in Pittsburg Steel shops; (3) 
Kate, (4) Sadie, both living in Keedysville with 
their mother; (5) Henry Kidd, married, lives in 
Keedysville and is chief clerk in his cousin's hard- 
ware store, H. G. Snyder & Co.; (6) Susan P. lives 
with her brother, D. O., in the Putman house. 
(7) Mary Etta, married Daniel W. Wyand, and 
is the mother of the author of this work (see D. W. 
Wyand under Simon Wyand family) ; (8) Aaron D., 
who has been a school teacher all his life and at this 
time, resides in Keedysville. He has been en- 
gaged in the fruit business during the summer. 
He has traveled in the West and owns farms in 
Kansas. He married Annie Eakle of Leiters- 
burg, Washington County, Md. They had two 
children: the eldest. Miss Verde, now at Annville 
Lebanon Valley College; (9) Jeremiah, deceased. 
He farmed for many j'ears for his father Ezra J. 
and later entered the railway postal service and 
ran on the local branch of B. & O. for some years. 
Transferred to Baltimore- Winchester, Va., route. 
A few years before death, which occurred in 1901, 
and while yet on the road, he purchased the Baker 
hardware store in Keedysville, taking his son in 
as partner. He married Nellie Easterday, of 
Frederick County, Md. They had three children: 
(i) Jennie (Mrs. C. O. Eakle), Eakle Mills, (2) Her- 
bert, who now owns the store which his father 
established; (3) Grace, at home in Keedysville, 
Md. Jeremiah Snyder founded the Eakles' Mills 



58 CHRISTIAN W\^ANDT AND POSTERITY 



Sunday school in 1877, in the school house. Ten 
years later the church was built. (10) Barbara 
E. resides with her brother and sister in the Put- 
man house. She is rightly the fostered mother 
of the author, and tucked him away in bed many 
a night while the howling north wind whistled 
round those old stone buildings and made the 
windows re-echo in their ancient casements. 
Many a time has the author's nerve been quieted 
by her assurance that no spooks were nigh as he 
lay trembling with fear that the Indian and war- 
time horrors the old house had witnessed would 
be repeated under the cover of night. 

The widow of Ezra Snyder died Sept. 24, 1889, 
just one year to the date of the death of Ezra, her 
husband. Both were buried in Keedysville, 
after services in the U. B. church, of which they 
were life-long members. 

(7) Adam Snyder, b. April 4, 18 15, married 
Miss Neff. He was a farmer and settled in Preble 
County, Ohio, where he died leaving one son, 
John A., now a farmer in Missouri. 

(8) Mary, b. July 18, 1817, married John Bom- 
berger, and settled in Illinois. They had chil- 
dren: Josiah, Elias D. (died 1907), Catherine, 
Mary Ellen, and Clarenda. 

(9) Matilda C. b. July 7, 1819; she never mar- 
ried, was an extensive traveler through the West. 
Taken ill on her last tour and brought back to the 
homestead, at her request, that she could die 
there. She died in 1894 aged 76. 

(10) Jacob, b. 1821, died in infancy. 

(11) Clarissa, b. Aug. 11, 1823, married William 



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Buxton, a miller; their children were: Catherine, 
Jacob, of F. Wyand & Co., Keedysville, John W., 
Almeda (Mrs. W. O, B. Sparrow), Susan, who 
married Rev. J. W. Kiracofe; Dr. Otho C. Western 
City, Iowa, David H. of Globe Manufacturing 
Co., Des Moines, Iowa, Curtis Lafayette, in busi- 
ness with his brother, David H. 

The Globe Machine and Supply Company, of 
which D. H. Buxton is the sole proprietor, is the 
largest engine-making concern west of the Missis- 
sippi, and their trade covers a vast territory. 
The pictures of both D. H. and C. L. Buxton ap- 
pear in this work. 

(12) Josiah, b. Dec. 31, 1827, married in Illinois 
and is the only surviving member of the family. 
He has visited his boyhood home twice — 1900 
and 1902. The writer spent several days with 
him at his home in Bismarck, 111., in 1904. Quite 
a lot of pictures were snapped of "Uncle Joe" 
both then and while in Maryland. He has a fine 
farm and was a "younger" man than the writer 
in 1904. He has three children: (i) Martin, at 
home; (2) Dora (Mrs. Wilson), Bismarck; (3) Prof. 
Otho C. of Danville schools. 

(13) Jacob (2), b. March 22, 1832, died in 
infancy. 

IV, Henry, son of Christian and Amelia (Put- 
man) Wyand, was born 1787, removed to Somer- 
set County, Pa., 181 1, thence to Stark County, 
Ohio, 18 1 8. He married Elizabeth Warner. 
They were the progenitors of the Stark County 
branch of the Wyandt family. They had eleven 



6o CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



children: (i) Simon, b. 1812, married and in 
1838 removed to Van Wert County, Ohio, one 
son, John, now living at Conway, Ohio, (2) Sarah, 
b. 18 14, married John Brubaker Franklin County, 
Pa. They lived in Wilmot, Ohio, then removed to 
Florida, Ohio. They had eight children. (3) 
Eva, b. 1816, married George Agler; lived on a 
farm west of Wilmot all her life. Their children 
were: W. H. H. Agler, 1840-1909, a member of 
the famous 19th O. V. I.; Mrs. Sarah Raff, of 
Traverse City, Mich.; Mrs. Elizabeth Dill, of Wil- 
mot; Mrs. John Eberly, of Stanton, Neb.; Mrs. 
Austin A. Hay, of Beach City; George W. Agler, 
of Ligonier, Ind.; Benjamin F. Agler, of Wilmot, 
Ohio; Abram Agler, Clerk of Courts, Canton, O., 
is a grandson; (4) Susan, b. 18 18 in Pennsyl- 
vania, married William Reed, lived three years 
in Van Wert County, and more than three score 
in Wilmot, Stark County. They had eight 
children, among them, Hiram Reed of Hicks- 
ville, Ohio, William Reed of Massillon, Henry 
and Frank of Wilmot, Mrs. Andrew Ax, and 
Mrs. Austin Shetler, of Beach City, and Mrs. 
Daniel W. Resh of Wilmot. [An incident 
of singular occurrence is recalled from some notes 
as I pen Mrs. Andrew Ax's name — William Ax, 
her son, died from spinal meningitis after a few 
months past the i8th year of life. The author 
had that disease at a few days past the i8th year 
of his life and made a recovery only to be entirely 
destitute of the sense of hearing], (5) David, b, 
in Wilmot, Jan. 26, 1820, married Mary Fribley, 
Feb. 18, 1842, lived near Wilmot. Their chil- 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 6i 



dren are: (i) Daniel F., b. Nov. i8, 1842; (2) 
Hester, b. Jan. 7, 1844; (3) Elizabeth, b. Aug. 14, 
1845. In 1845 David Wyandt removed to Henry 
County, he assisting in clearing the sites occupied 
by the towns of Na^oleon^ and Florida. Malaria 
fever scare drove them back to Wilmot (then 
Milton). Here their fourth child, Rebecca, was 
born in 1853, and Annetta in 1856. The resi- 
dence then owned by David Wyandt and from 
which he was buried Sept. 11, 1861, is now owned 
by his youngest son, Rev. J. D. Wyandt, b. Oct. 
18, 1859. Hester died on Sept. 29, 1873, and the 
wife of David Wyandt July 11, 1892. Daniel F., 
the eldest son, was a member of Co. K, 163 O. V. I., 
and died at Fort Monroe Aug. i, 1864. He was 
buried on the banks of the James River in Virginia. 
Neither Daniel F. nor Hester were married at 
time of their deaths. Elizabeth married David 
Foutz, 1879, Annetta married Henry P. Fisher, 
1886, and has two children. Rebecca married 
Abraham Kanaga, 1893, he dying a year later. 
Jacob D. married Regena E. Ruegsegger. To 
them were born four children, the eldest, Effie 
Ruth, being now a student at Otterbein Univer- 
sity. Jacob Wyandt has been a minister in the 
^United Brethren Church since 1884, in Eastern 
Ohio and has served as Presiding Elder seven 
years. He owns valuable farm land. 

(6) Catherine, b. 1822, d. 1846, married — 

Logan, lived and died in Wilmot. (7) Magda- 

lena, b. 1824, married Jacob Hurraw and lived 
on the old home farm where she died. She was 
the mother of Mrs. Truman Palmer of Wilmot, who 



62 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



with her husband resides upon the old home place 
west of town. She and Mrs. Palmer have two chil- 
dren, Mrs. J. O. Newcomer, merchant in Wilmot, 
and Jacob Palmer, cashier of the Wilmot Citizens 
Bank. Jacob Palmer is married and has one child. 

(8) Elizabeth, b. 1826, married Wilhelm, 

lived near Wilmot on a farm. One son, J. S. 
Wilmot, a graduate of Otterbein University, is 
Editor of the Canton Repository, and is well known 
as a church worker. (9) Jacob, b. 1830, died De- 
cember, 1908. He spent his entire life as a mer- 
chant in Wilmot. His first wife, whom he mar- 
ried in 1859, was Isabel Sager of Wilmot. To 
them were born three children: (i) Mrs. Mary- 
Reed of Wilmot; (2) Mrs. Ella Mohn, Deleware, 
Ohio, and Harry E., Cleveland, Ohio. The wife 
of Jacob Wyandt dying in 1895 he married Frances 
Hoab in 1899. They were visited by the writer 
on July 13, 1906, and the venerable old merchant 
at 76 furnished us most of our facts, in writing, 
we publish of Henry Wyandt's family. The 
night was spent with them, the old gentleman 
being active, though slightly disabled by a frac- 
ture of hip some months before. (10) Mary A., 
b. 1833, married John Ball, of the Ball Manufact- 
uring Co. She is living in Canton at this time, 
the only survivor of that large family. We 
visited her in 1906 and saw her children to the third 
generation — Mrs. Cubbenson, Mrs. Ritchie and 
Hilda May Ritchie. (11) Annetta, b. 1838, 

married John Spidell, lived in Wilmot. 

V. Susan, daughter of Christian and Amelia 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 63 



(Putman) Wyand, born April 7, 1791, married 
Jacob Snavely or Sneveley, in 18 12, a son of Cas- 
per Snavely, who came from Barvaria, Germany. 
Died Dec. 31, 1857, aged 66 years, 4 months, 24 
days. To Jacob and Susan Snavely were born 
five children: (i) John H., 18 13, resided in Sharps- 
burg, Md., father of 13 children, among them, 
Martin, Hezekiah and John. Among his grand- 
children are Prof. Guy Snavely and Dr. Earle 
Snavely of Maryland Hospital for Insane, both 
graduates of Baltimore College. (2) Catherine, 
married Martin Eakle, after whom Eakle's Mills 
are named. (3) Betsy (Mrs. Jacob Miller), 
Sharpsburg. (4) Washington C, married Eliza- 
beth Staubs and lived on his father's homestead, 
and (5) Mary E., wife of John Keyfauver, who 
lived on a part of the old Snavely homestead. 

Jacob Snavely was a farmer, having 60D acres. 
He cultivated a vineyard and made wine. He 
also kept tavern and a wagon stand, and operated 
a saw and grist mill later known as Eakle's Mills, 
in honor of Martin Eakle, son-in-law of Snavely. 
Eakle conducted a general store after Ezri J, 
Snyder sold out. He became postmaster and rail 
road agent. He was succeeded by his son, Wash- 
ington C. Eakle, who was succeeded by his son, 
Clayton O. Eakle, the incumbent. The wife of 
C. O. Eakle is the great-great-grand daughter 
of Jacob and Catherine (Wyand) Snyder, therefore 
both Mr. and Mrs. C. O. Eakle are descended 
directly from Christian and Amelia (Putman) 
Wyand. They have four children, representing 
the sixth generation of the Wyand family. 



64 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



Washington C. Snavely, son of Jacob and Cath- 
erine Snavely, succeeded his father as farmer of 
the Snavely homestead farm, lived there all his 
life, married Elizabeth Staubs and to them were 
born nine children: Jacob and Susan (Wyandt) 
Snavely are buried in Mt. Hebron graveyard, 
near Keedysville, the site of the Old Geeting 
Meeting-house — the first U. B. church in Mary- 
land. The Snavely homestead, in part, the farm, 
is now owned and cultivated by David H. Snavely, 
son of Washington Snavely. He owns in this 
farm a portion of Hills Dale and so brands his 
peaches which he ships by the carload to Eastern 
cities. They are grown on the old vineyard. 

VI. Elizabeth, b. 1795, daughter of Christian 
and Amelia Wyand, married David Rohrer, 
moved 'to Dayton, Ohio. Some of the descend- 
ants live at Wauseon, Fulton County, Ohio. 

VII. Mary, b. 1796, married Benjamin Zim- 
merman, carpenter. They resided on a portion 
of her father's vast estate which was continually 
growing. To them five children were born: Car- 
rie, died 1906, aged 84 years. At the age of 60 
she married Michael Flynn, lived on the Zimmer- 
man place all her life; Neil, died March, 1909, age 
74, a machinist living first at Martinsburg, W. Va., 
but last part of life in Chambersburg, Pa. He 
leaves a number of children; Elias, Nicodemus, 
and Amelia (Mrs. Martin Rohrer), who owns the 
old Zimmerman homestead, is to-day turning the 
four score year, entertains her descendants unto 




IJANIHI. H. WVAXDT 

(No. 17) 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 65 



the fourth generation. She has given us much 
information. Her memory is as clear through 
seventy-six or eight years back. She is the only 
surviving member of the family — a third genera- 
tion from Christian Wyandt. Mary' (Wyand) 
Zimmerman died Oct, 10, 1838, aged 42 years, 
9 months, 13 days. Her remains lie beside those 
of her mother, Amelia Wyand, and those of her 
brother, Simon Wyand, and sister, Susan Snavely 
in Mt. Hebron graveyard. Her grave and all 
others are well marked and cared for. Among 
her descendants are Prof. Guy and Dr. Earle 
Snavely, whose paternal ancestor was Jacob 
Snavely. 

VIII. Christena, daughter of Christian and 
Amelia Wyand, was born in 1793, married Sam- 
uel Deaner, a farmer, in Keedysville. To that 
union were born three children: (i) Jonas, (2) 
Sophia, who married George W. Rohrer and 
moved West; one son, Milford F., was at one time 
mayor of Council Bluffs, Iowa. (3) Catherine, 
who married Joseph Thomas, a farmer and 
butcher of Keedysville; one of their daughters 
married Jacob Snavely, Jr., of Washington 
Snavely, second cousins; another daughter mar- 
ried Mr. Lovell, merchant at Benevola, Md. 

Jonas Deaner taught school, and later took up 
farming on his father's estate. He married Ann 
Marie Baker. They had four children: Eugenia 
(Mrs. Daniel Nikirk) Keedysville; Arbelin, de- 
ceased; Prof. H. Clay, formerly professor at Leb- 
anon Valley College, now cashier in an Annville 



66 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



bank; Fannie (Mrs. D. D. Keedy), Keedysville. 
Jonas and Anne Marie Deaner, both died in same 
year, the former in June, the latter in September, 
1904, aged respectively 78 and 79. 

IX. Christian Wyand, son of Christian and 
Mary "Amelia" (Putnam) Wyandt, b. Feb. 3, 
1800, married Polly Cost of Keedysville, Md., in 
1825. Was a farmer residing on a portion of his 
father's estate known as Hill's Dale, now the 
farm of F. T. Hagan, Eakle's Mills, Md. Their 
children were: (i) Frederick, b. 1827, learned 
shoe making at Eakle's Mills, became a merchant 
in Keedysville, and in 1861 built the F. Wyand 
block which contains the largest retail store in 
Washington County outside of Hagerstown. In 
1863 he married Lydia Ecker of Porterstown, who 
survives. To them were born three children: (i) 
Annie (Mrs. Theodore Davis), Boulder, Col; (2) 
Grant, successor to his father in the mercantile 
business, and president of the Keedysville Cit- 
izens Bank; (3) Lillie (Mrs. Harvey Cost), Hagers- 
town. Each of the children have families. (2) 
David Henry, b. Oct. 2, 1830, learned shoe making 
with his brother, went to Keedysville as his broth- 
er's clerk in 1861, erected the Dr. A. D. Baker 
house as a hotel in 1864. In 1874 he erected the 
largest and most modern hotel in the county out- 
side of Hagerstown, and conducted it until 1900 
when it became the Line House. It was known 
widely for its temperance atmosphere. David 
Wyand was drafted during the Civil War but em- 
ployed a substitute, who fell in battle. D. H. has 




WINFIELD .SCOTT WYANDT 

(KIKLED IN BATTLE, AGED l8) 
(No. 100) 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 67 



served continuously for 37 years as superintendent 
of the Keedysville U. B. Sunday School. He is 
known as one of the pillars of that denomination. 
In 1862 he married Kate Wilson. To them two 
children were born: William (deceased) was a 
B. & O. telegraph operator, Temperance (Mrs. 
William Baxter). They reside with her parents. 
(3) Hiram, b. 1833, is proprietor of the City Hotel, 
Hillsboro, Ind. His second wife is the eldest 
daughter of the late Rev. D. R. Bovey, of Keedys- 
ville, Md. By the first marriage he has two chil- 
dren: Frederick and Annie; (4) Mary, daughter 
of Christian and Polly Wyand, died in her eigh- 
teenth year. 

(X) Simon Wyand, youngest child of Christian 
and Mary "Amelia" (Putman) Wyandt, was born 
in 1804, married Rebecca Geeting (or Guething), 
daughter of Rev. Geo. A. Geeting, Jr. They lived 
on that portion of the original homestead now in 
the farms of Mrs. Frank Keyfauver and William 
G. Smith. Simon Wyand owned the farm now 
occupied by his son, Caleb Wyand, in the west end 
of Keedysville, Md. This tract formerly em- 
braced all the lower portion of the town site. A 
copy of the deed from Simon Wyand to the Vestry 
of Mt. Vernon Reformed Church, for the land 
upon which the church stands is on file at the 
Hagerstown Court House. Simon Wyand was 
killed on July 23, 1872, by his team of four horses 
running away at the railroad crossing near Eakle's 
Mills. He and his wife lie buried in Mt. Hebron 
graveyard close by the graves of her father and 



68 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POvSTERlTY 



grandfather, Bishop Geeting, and his mother, 
"Amelia" Wyandt, and several of his sisters. To 
Simon and "Amelia" Wyandt were born six chil- 
dren (i) Joshua, deceased, farmer, lived near 
Biirnside Bridge, below Sharpsburg, Md.; married 
a Miss Middlekaufif, who died early afterwards. 
He then married Miss Annie Miller of Sharpsburg. 
To them were born nine children: (i) Minnie 
(Mrs. Alvin Millendore), Gapland, Md., deceased, 
left a number of children, among them Harry M. 
Millendore, merchant and post master at Gapland; 
(2) Fannie, (Mrs. J. Moser), Burkittsville, Md., 
deceased, (3) Albert, deceased, farmer, (4) Kate 
(Mrs. O. W. Burtner), Sharpsburg, deceased, (5) 
Harry, farmer, Boonsboro, Md., (6) Jacob, (7) 
Benjamin, (8) Joseph, (9) Daisy (Mrs. W. O. Cox), 
all living in or near Sharpsburg, and all are mar- 
ried and have families. 

(2), Catherine, married Ezra Wright, of Marsh- 
field, Ind., a native of Maryland. He was visited 
by the writer in 1904 and at three score and ten 
and more was active. His son by this marriage, 
Aaron, lives at Bismarck, 111., and is a farmer. 
He was also visited in 1904, he living but a short 
distance from Uncle Joe Snyder. For Ezra 
Wright's father, see Snyder family. 

(3), Caleb Wyand, b. 1841, now living on his 
farm at West end of Keedysville, Md. He is a 
great United Brethren church man, and an ardent 
Republican; served as County Commissioner, and 
held corporation town offices. Married Sarah P. 
Blessing, a near relative to the " Hero of Highland 
Town" of Civil War fame, in 1865. They are the 




UK. ALPHEUS H. GANS 
(Xo 104) 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 69 



parents of six children: (i) Emory, deceased, 
watchmaker and jeweler of Keedysville. He left 
several children, among them Chester Wyand, 
his successor in the watchmaking business, (2) 
Ora B., farmer on the home place, (3) Myrtie 
(Mrs. Woodward Poffenberger), Bakersville, Md., 
(4) Lorilla, deceased, (5) Pearl (Mrs. Wilson), 
Hagerstown, (6) Eva, member of a college faculty 
in Mississippi. 

(4), Barbara A., daughter of Simon and Rebecca 
Wyand, married Jacob Rohrer in 1870. They 
farmed for her father and at his death purchased 
his resident farm. Jacob Rohrer died in 1891, 
after they had moved to the Cost farm at Pry's 
Mill, Keedysville, Md. His widow continues to 
reside on the farm, she and Caleb Wyand, the 
surviving children of Simon Wyand. They had 
four children: (i) Alice (Mrs. Harvey Leighter), 
Keedysville, (2) Dr. Caleb W. G., a prominent 
Baltimorian physician and a member of the Fac- 
ulty of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
(3) Simon, and (4) Jacob, (twins), both farmers 
at Keedysville. 

(5) Daniel W. Wyand, b. March 11, 1847, edu- 
cated at County schools and Otterbein Univer- 
sity, Westerville, Ohio. Teacher in Washington 
County schools for thirty years — until his death. 
He was also engaged in farming and was for a 
number of years a Justice of the Peace. He was 
well known as an author and speaker, as well as 
Sunday school superintendent and church worker. 
In 1869 he married Mary E. Snyder, daughter of 
Ezra Snyder, her father being his first cousin. 



70 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



They had nine children: (i) Webster H., commer- 
cial traveler, Hagerstown, Md. He married Daisy 
Bovey, daughter of Rev. D. R. Bovey, Keedys- 
ville, and they have five children. (2) Rev. Simon 
S., minister in the M. E. church in Iowa. He is 
a graduate of several colleges and of Yale. Was 
for some years president of the Memorial Univer- 
sity, Mason City, Iowa. He married Frances 
Farman of Iowa, and lives now at Albion. (3) 
Arthur Percival, member of the Faculty of Wo- 
man's College, Frederick City, Md., has been con- 
nected with business schools in Hagerstown and 
Frederick City. (4) E. Clayton, the Author of 
this hook. (5) Gershone, deceased, (6) Hattie 
(Mrs. C. C. Hoffmaster), Hagerstown, Md., (7) 
Ira, deceased, (8) Amos D., and (9) Fred B., living 
with their mother on the parental place the latter 
attending school in Hagerstown. Daniel W. 
Wyand died March 9, 1898, from blood-poisoning, 
as a result of a cut on face. He was buried on 
his birthday and laid to rest in Fairview cemetery, 
Keedysville, aged 52 on day of burial. 

(6), Aaron C. Wyand, youngest of Simon Wy- 
and's family, b. 1849 graduated at Eastman Busi- 
ness College, New York, was a commercial traveler 
and farmer. He erected the most modern farm 
buildings in the community, upon a portion of his 
father's estate, now owned by W. G. Smith. To 
this place he brought Virginia Easterday as his 
bride in 1872. To them five children were born: 
(i) Charles L., commercial traveler, Hagerstown, 
Md., (2) Josephus E., who served a term in the U. 
S. Navy as an orderly and participated in the 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 71 



Spanish War on the U. S. S. Texas. He re-en- 
listed and traveled on the U. S. S. Essex, a training 
ship, when it went to European ports. He died 
from an operation for appendicitis in 1900, and 
was buried on the National Cemetery at Beaufort, 
S. C. He was stationed at the Washington Navy- 
Yard after the Spanish War waiting the remaining 
months of his enlistment. The writer was then 
at college in Washington, D. C, and we had days 
together. He gave me his experience in the war, 
smiling, related how he had volunteered to go 
with Hobson to bottle up the Spanish fleet in the 
Harbor of Havana. Later, when the mariners 
were landed and ordered to scale the hill, Jo- 
sephus was one of the first on terra firma and up 
the hill, amid the rain of shot. At the Navy 
Yard the commandant became attached to him 
and gave him a place as his assistant, which ex- 
cused him from drill and hardships. After going 
through the place with him I asked him how he 
had won the respect of the officer and secured the 
position. He replied: "The officers know that I 
do not drink and am a Christian." (3) Orange 
Judd, grocer in Hagerstown, (4) Martin L., confec- 
tioner and baker, Waynesboro, Pa. ,(5) Virginia, died 
in infancy a few days after her mother's death. 
Aaron C. Wyand married as his second wife Mar- 
sina Beck of Washington County, and selling his 
farm removed to Antietam Furnace where he en- 
gaged in storekeeping and was custodian of the 
old Furnace property. He died from Typhoid in 
1898, a few months after his brother Daniel, and 
was followed a few months later by his eldest 



72 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



brother, Joshua. Singular it has seemed, that 
after 40 years death should approach a family 
and carry away three men within a year who were 
in robust health up till a few weeks before they 
yielded up all that was mortal. Aaron C. Wyand 
was well known as a Sunday school worker. 

In Mt. Hebron graveyard we find the grave of 
Amelia Wyand. On the stone, in English, we 
read these two notices: 

"AMELIA WYAND 
Died Nov. 6th, 1853 
Aged nearly 100 years." 

"CHRISTIAN WYAND 
Died 1812." 

In this same graveyard, which was the first 
public burial ground in that section, it being 
planned by Rev. Geo. A. Geeting, Sr., out of his 
own estate, close to the grove of stately oaks, we 
find the graves of the following relatives of Amelia 
(Putman) Wyandt: Her daughter, Mary Zim- 
merman, her son Simon and his wife Rebecca, 
Catherine Snyder and husband Jacob Snyder, 
Elizabeth Snyder, wife of Thomas Wright who 
died at age of 22 years, 10 months, twenty-four 
days. Rebecca (Geeting) Wyand, died on Feb. 13, 
1866, aged 59 years, 5 months, 22 days. On one 
of the stones marking the graves of Simon and 
Rebecca Wyand is the following: 

" Our father and mother are gone. 

They lay beneath the sod. 

Dear parents, tho' we miss you much, 

We know you rest with God." 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 73 



Upon another stone in the graveyard I find 
this in German: 

" Das du bist, das ware ich, 
Das ich nun bin, 
Das wirst du werden." 
In English this is: 

"As you are, so was I, 
As I now am 
So you will be." 

SOME RECORDED DEEDS 

By the Court Records I find there was at an early 
date a Wyand family branch in what is now Funks- 
town, near Hagerstown. The best known member 
was Yost J W"y and. In 1786, when the place was 
called Jerusalem, a deed was made to Jacob Wyand 
by Susan White. In 1795 a deed from Jonathan 
Double to Henry Wyand. 1791, Henry Wyand from 
Peter Creager. Henry Wyand from Jacob Funk, 
Christian Vincent from James Chapline, 181 1. 
Christian Viont from Abraham Rote, 1795, 50 acres 
on Root's Hill. ChristianWyand, Jr.,toFred Baker, 
185 1. Simon Wyand from Mahlan Rhoderick, 1847. 
Simon Wyand from Joseph Geeting, 1853. Simon 
Wyand from J. Geeting in 1854. Simon Wyand and 
wife to Samuel Cost, 1855. Simon Wyand and wife 
to Vestry of Mt. Vernon Church, 1855. Simon Wy- 
and from Jacob Firey, i860. Jacob Wyand of Eliza- 
bethtown(Hagerstown)to Philip Adams, deed, 1793, 
per house No. 23, in Jerusalem (Funkstown). Yost 
Viont or Wyand from John Simpkins, 1779. Yost 
Wyand house to John Brownin Jerusalem, 1830, etc. 



74 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 




AFTERMATH 

p^F you were to ask me about occupations of 
the Wyandt and Wyands I should say 
that in number in one occupation that of 
merchant and general store keeping leads. 
Farming second. All vocations are well repre- 
sented from laborers to judge and legislator. 
There are scores of teachers, professors, doctors, 
lawyers, bankers, factory owners, railroaders, 
and there seems to be an unusual large number 
of Sunday school superintendents. It is a well 
known fact that the progenitor of the original 
Weyandt family was a bishop and at the head of 
the plan which founded the leading divinity school 
in Germany back in 1555, and was president of 
several colleges The early settlers of this family 
in America were ministers and teachers. I refer 
you here to the branch founded at what is now 
Newbury, New York, by Rev. George Wyandt. 
Of this line, a descendant, Charles Weyandt, has 
published in a monthly organ in 1897, an histor- 
ical sketch of that familv. 

Michael Weigand settled in Newburgh, in 
1709. Cornelius Weygandt in Philadelphia (Ger- 
mantown) in 1736. In 1749 Rev. Geo. Albert 
Weygandt was called to the pastorate of the 
Evangelical Lutheran Church in New German- 
town, New Jersey. Michael Weigand was born 
in 1656 and was leader of the Lutheran Refugees 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 75 



to the Hudson River, N. Y., in 1709. The Family 
Record describes the families back to Bishop John 
Wigand, born in Mansfield, Upper Saxony, 1523. 
He was at the head of a school at 18 and was one 
of the founders of a theological school. He at- 
tended lectures of Luther and Melancthor. Dur- 
ing his last years he was at the head of the Uni- 
versity of Wiemar. He published many religious 
books. There were a number of ministers in each 
line, mostly Evangelical Lutheran. Of these a 
son of Cornelius Weygandt, George Henry Wey- 
gandt, was ordained in the Lutheran church in 
Frederick City, Md., May 24, 1824. He was 
styled as the Herculean preacher and traveler. 
He died at 68, having preached 5,534 sermons, 
baptized 3,453 persons, and married 383 couple 
The progenitor. Rev. Geo. Herman Weygandt, 
was born in Rhine Palatinate, and the descendants 
have now, so the publisher of the Family Record 
tells me, just fifty variations of the name, and 
the people are in every state in the union, almost. 
The Record says: Peter Weygandt, b. in North- 
ampton County, Pa., 1760, became a blacksmith, 
in 1792 removed to Washington County, Pa., and 
in 18 1 5 to Stark County, Ohio. He also obtained 
grants in Wayne and Richmond Counties. He 
resided a few miles north of Massillon, dying there 
in 182 1. A number of the early families served 
in the Revolutionary War, one, Lieutenant Mar- 
tin Weyandt, winning distinction. 

There was another line in New Jersey. One in 
Shenandoah, Virginia, the progenitor of which was 
Peter Wyant. A great-grandson, David W. Wy- 



76 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



ant, is a prominent merchant in that town and 
we visited him March 29, 1909. 

This extract comes from a German paper 
printed in Easton, Pa., in April ,1828. 

"In Northampton County there still lives per- 
haps the only soldier of General Wolfe's army in 
the whole state, John Weygandt, who has resided 
in this county many years and who is now near 
his 97th year. He was present at the battle of 
Quebec and was wounded in the fight. He speaks 
of the great soldier with the greatest admiration. 
John Weygandt served through the Revolutionary 
War as a friend of freedom." 

The Wyands are everywhere, and they look 
alike in every respect save name. In August, 
1908, I visited a furniture factory at Easton, 
Maryland (Eastern shore). This was a big estab- 
lishment and 1 went in to look up an old friend 
whom I heard had been working there. To see 
him I had to get permission from the foreman 
of his department. When the foreman advanced 
I thought of my brother living in Frederick City 
from appearances, but I thought it was a foolish 
dream until he gave me his name, then I began 
to believe I was out of my head — his name was 
George W. Wieand, Allentown, Pa. 

Another incident, the sequel to above, is, when 
I got a copy of The Family Record of the New 
York family there was a photo of one of the family 
in it. I covered the name with a card and asked 
every person who knew my brother, including 
my mother, two brothers and sister, and all de- 
clared it was my brother in Frederick. Another 




DR. LOUIS MKXUEZ 
(Xo. 103) 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 77 



incident, the following extract from a letter to 
me from my brother living in Iowa explains. 

"Since being in public services I have received 
many, many, letters with my name, as I now 
remember, Wyant, Whine, Wiand, Wine, Whyon, 
Wyland, Wheyland, Whyn, Whyne, Wynd, 
Wyan, and at least half a dozen more ways. Wish 
you would look up the enclosed cards:" "Harry 
A. Wyand, Livery, Sale and Boarding Stable, etc., 
316 N. Main St., Crockton, Minnesota." I ran 
into this fellow there last April. In every way 
he resembled father, and when I met him I picked 
him out of a bunch of men, all strangers. I could 
locate him as easily as I could locate you. His 
hair, eyes, and whole features were the same as 
the Wyand type. Now, he and his brother came 
to Crookston, Minn., from Sparta, Wis., 17 years 
ago. His parents came to Sparta from Prince 
Edwards Islands, near Nova Scotia. We are 
from the same tree." 

From the following, taken from the Baltimore, 
Md., American, March 30, 1909, we see clearly 
the Wyand family tree over in old Germany is 
still bearing fruit: 

"A. Schumacher & Co., local agents for the 
North German Lloyd Line, were advised by cable 
that Mr. Heinrich Wiegand, director general of 
the company, died at noon yesterday at his home 
at Hamberg, Germany, after a lingering illness. 

"Mr. Heinrich Wiegand was born^ at Bremen, 
August 17, 1855, and attended the schools and 
college of his native city. After studying law 
at the Universities of Erlangen, Bonn, Berlin and 



78 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



Strassburg he returned to Bremen for the prac- 
tice of his profession. His prominent activities 
as a lawyer, especially in admiralty and commer- 
cial law, soon gained for him an enviable reputa- 
tion, and on February 15, 1889, he was appointed 
chief of the legal department of the North German 
Lloyd. On April 23, 1892, he was elected director 
of the company and shortly after was appointed 
director general. 

"With his entrance into office a new epoch be- 
gan for the North German Lloyd and the com- 
merce of Bremen, marking an important period 
in the history of the German merchant marine. 
An entirely new fleet of ships were built for the 
Lloyd during his directorship; new docks were 
constructed, new services inaugurated and branch 
lines established in the Mediterranean, the South 
Seas, Japanese and Australian waters, and two 
schoolships were put into commission to train 
cadets for future service as officers on the con- 
stantly growing fleet of the company. 

" His care for the welfare of the employes of the 
North German Lloyd was evidenced by his exten- 
sion of the Seamen's Pension Fund, by the found- 
ing of a Widow's and Orphans' Fund and by estab- 
lishing the 'Elizabeth Wiegand Home' in honor 
of his deceased wife. 

"Mr. Wiegand visited Baltimore about six 
years ago for the purpose of inspecting our harbor 
facilities. Out of respect to his memory the flag 
was draped at halfmast over the German Consu- 
late yesterday." 

From Maryland Archives we get the following 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 79 



name as among those who formed the company 
of militia from Middle District Frederick County, 
which marched to camp in New York: "Jacob 
Weyant, or Wicant" (just as the name appears 
on the roll which shows the name had been guessed 
at). 

On the muster roll we find these names: 
"John Pitman." 
"Joseph Bootman." 

John Snider was a member of Captain Mantz's 
Flying Camp, Frederick, formed July 13, 1776. 

FAMILY REUNION 

It was a beautiful day, when 175 of Weyandt- 
Warner relatives met in their annual reunion at 
Myers' Lake, at Canton, last Thursday, September 
10. In the forenoon they gathered at this beau- 
tiful resort and awaited dinner, which was served 
in the usual picnic manner at the noon hour. 

In the afternoon services were opened by sing- 
ing the song, " We'll Gather at the River." Prayer 
by David O. Snyder, of Eakles Mills, Md. After 
this a Scriptural lesson by Caleb Weyandt of 
Keedysville, Md., was read — the XlVth chapter 
of St. John. After which short speeches were 
made by the following named persons: D. M. Al- 
dridge of Dell Roy, Ohio; Caleb Weyandt of Kee- 
dysville, Md. ; Jeremiah Warner of Bowerston, 
Ohio., who has been president of the association 
for the past two years; David O. Snyder of Eakles 
Mills, Md., who also exhibited several fine pictures 
of the old Weyandt homestead in Maryland — 



8o CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



this homestead was built over loo years ago. It 
is located close to the battlefield of Antietam, the 
land running up to said battlefield. 

After these exercises, a business meeting was 
held. In the election of officers, A, W. Agler of 
Canton, was chosen president for the coming 
year; Jacob Palmer of Wilmont, was elected sec- 
retary, Melvin Warner of New Philadelphia, was 
made vice-president, and W. B. Weyandt of Bow- 
erston, treasurer. The following persons were 
selected as a committee on music: B. F, Agler, 
Emerson Long, U. R. Henry, H. W. Penn and 
D. M. Aldridge. The committee on arrangements 
consists of A. A. Play, Andrew Cubbinson, Samuel 
Warner, Caleb Weyandt, George W. Raff, Jere- 
miah Warner and Eeroy Foutz. The next meet- 
ing will be held at Myers' Lake, probably the last 
Saturday of August, 1909. A motion was made 
that each party should bring a basket of food and 
all eat together. 

A very interesting letter was read from E. Clay- 
ton Weyandt, tracing the Weyandt's genealogy 
from Germany down to the present day. 

NOTES. 

Caleb Weyandt and David O. Snyder in attend- 
ing this reunion made their first trip from Mary- 
land to Ohio. They are quite fine men, religious 
and sociable. They came together to Bowerston 
on Wednesday and were guests of Mrs. W. B. 
Penn and W. H. Host and families. On Wednes- 
day evening a social meeting was held at the home 
of Mrs. Penn, and quite a pleasant time was spent, 
talking over family connections, etc. 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 8i 



Regrets were expressed at the reunion that Miss 
Bessie Host of Bowerston, who has been the sec- 
retary of the association for the past year, was 
unable to be present. 

The reunion closed by singing, "All Hail the 
Power of Jesus Name." And with hand shakes 
and good-byes, all departed for their respective 
homes. W. H. Host. 

— Harrison County Democrat, Sept. 17, 1908. 



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82 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS 



Somerset, Pa., May 3, 1909. 
Rev. E. C. Weyand, 

Dear Sir: — Your letter addressed to P. M. was placed in my 
box for an answer. This I will try and give so far as I can. The 
Putnams were here before 1800, except that they were not here 
in 1784. I do not know how much earlier. Seem to have located 
in what is now Milford Township, although some may also have 
been in the part afterwards cut off to Middlecreek. I knew a 
Mr. Peter Putnam, but not intimately; do not know his father's 
name. He lived on a very nice farm in Milford, about five miles 
south of Somerset, said to have been born on it. Have passed 
it many times. 

Near end of life he removed to Rockwood, about five miles 
from his former home. Was born in 1830, married to Susan 
Walter and died Nov. 15, 1903. Member German Reformed 
Church and quite a good man. 

Family — David F. Putnam, Rockwood, Pa.; Mrs. Margaret 
Hoover, Mrs. Mabel Hanger (both of Rockwood, I think); Georgi- 
ana, wife of R. H. Walker, Meyersdale, Pa.; Darlie, wife of J. A. 
Hochstetter, New Somerset. I think this is Jacob H.; will in- 
quire of him when I next see him. I think a letter addressed to 
David, first mentioned, would give further information. Annie 
B. Putnam, Trent, Somerset County, is probably a widow. Silas 
Putnam, also Trent, is a laborer. Wm. B. Putnam, R. F. D. 
No. 3, Somerset County, Pa. 

The wives of Henry Keim and Peter Keim (cousins), of Elk 
Lick Township, were Putnam girls, but whether sisters of Peter, 
before mentioned, I do not know. Peter K's wife was Rebecca 
Putnam. About 1858 they moved to Laurelville, Westmoreland 
County, Pa., where both died a long while ago. Their oldest 
son, John Henry Keim,lives somewhere in Ohio; locality I do 
not know. Clay Putnam Keim, second son, died at Greensburg, 
Pa., Jan. 14, 1906. 

His children — John Keim, at Laurelville; Erma, Howard and 
Miriam were then at home in Greensburg, Pa. 

Nelson Keim, another son of Peter and Rebecca P. Keim, 
lives, I think, at Martinsburg, Pa. There was also a daughter 
who is Mrs. D. B. Fisher, Mt. Pleasant, Pa. While I knew her 
as a very little girl, I have forgotten her given name. 

As to the wife of Henry Keim, also a Putnam, I do not remem- 
ber her first name, while Mr. Keim himself is now dead. She 
may still be living. I do not know how many children they had 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 83 



but their son, David Keim, lives on home farm at West Salisbury, 
Somerset County, Pa. I know that there were two daughters, 
both married, but I do not know to whom. 

I will add that these two Putnam girls who were married to 
Henry and Peter Keim, also had a brother John who died early 
in life, about 185 1 or 2. His wife was a sister of Henry Keim, 
and I believe after her husband's death she returned to her fath- 
er's home. I recall that her son, age about seven years, was out 
in the field when they were hauling in grain, and in some way the 
boy fell under a wheel of the loaded wagon and was crushed to 
death. This took place about 1858 or 9. 

I do not know whether Mrs. Putnam, now deceased, had any 
other children or not, but you can ascertain this by writing to 
her brother, Mr. John J. Keim, Elk Lick, Somerset County, Pa. 

John Dull was a pioneer settler, was here as early as 1783. 
I knew Daniel, William and Samuel H. Dull. I think Mrs. Geo. 
Brant was their sister, all deceased. I think they were grand- 
sons of John Dull, though they might also have been of a genera- 
tion one removed later. Rufus H. DuH's age was, I judge, past 
60. Glade, Somerset County, Pa., can probably give you much 
information. I knew him quite well; a fine man. I think his 
address still is Glade. But his wife died several years ago and 
he may have changed. Should you fail to get a reply from him 
let me know and I will locate him if he has changed. E. E. Dull, 
Rockwood, I think is his son, but I may be wrong as to that. 
There are without doubt Dull descendants in the female lines 
but I can't tell anything about them. I will add that some of 
the Dulls have drifted across the Laurel Hill into Fayette County, 
Pa., I mean some of the earlier stock. 

As to the Bruner family there are still some of them in the 
county but I am unable to say from which line they come. There 
were three Bruners who cut a figure in early history of the Somer- 
set settlement — Henry, George and Ulrich, or Woolerick. The 
authorities from which I derive the most of my information say 
that W. Bruner settled to north of Somerset; that H. Bruner's 
house was within town of Somerset; George Bruner's west of 
Somerset — only initials are used for first names and these may 
have been a slip of the pen by which the W. and H. were put to 
wrong places. If Henry really first improved land now site of 
part of Somerset, then there must have been a deal of some sort 
between Henry and Woolerick, for Woolerick Bruner certainly 
sold the land, now a part of Somerset, to Adam Schneider, for 
I have a copy of the agreement between them. He had really 
platted the town of Milford here, then sold it to Snyder, who in 
1795 replatted and called it Somerset. George Bruner was 2d 
Lieutenant in one of the companies of the organized militia in 
1779 (Revolutionary period). 



84 CHRIvSTlAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



There are Bruners still about and I give you these names — 
Ross Bruner, R. F. D. No. 2, Rockwood, Pa.; A. W. Bruner, 
Gebhart, Somerset County, Pa.; Clark Bruner, Glade, Pa. (These 
all in Milford Township.) In Middlecreek Township lives — ■ 
Israel- Bruner, w-hose P. O. is R. F. D. No. 2, Rockwood, Pa. In 
Jefferson Township live these — Wm. H. Bruner and Noah H. 
Bruner, P. O., R. F. D. No. 3, Somerset, Pa.; John A. Bruner 
and Solomon Bruner, R. F. D. No. 4, Somerset, Pa. I cannot 
tell from which of the three pioneers they spring. 

Mrs. A. H. Huston of Somerset was a Bruner, but she was 
raised at Connellsville, Fayette County, Pa. I will ask Mr. 
Huston and ascertain what they know. I do not know how 
well the people whose names I have given you may be versed in 
their family history. 

You probably know that many people know little beyond 
names of grandparents, and some don't even know those, and 
this inquiry of yours necessarily goes back as far as 1775. 

If those early Bruners lived up to or after 1795, then much 
information may be gathered from old wills, writs of partition 
and similar court papers on file at Court House prior to 1795. 
Such information nmst be sought for at Bedford. Ancient deeds 
on record also give some information, as do old tax records and 
survey books. 

I think you are right as to the maiden name of Adam Snyder's 
wife having been Putnam. Adam Snyder bought the land on 
on which that part of Somerset north of Main street, was platted 
from Woolerick Bruner. Peter Ankeny owned the land south. 
They platted it together as Somerset, but each sold his own lots. 
John H. Snyder, Staystown, Pa., a grandson, is still living, well 
up in the eighties, but still active. Saw him in town a few days 
ago. Don't know how readily he would answer letters as writing 
I think would go hard on account of age. His brother Simon 
lives in Minneapolis, Minn. Samuel P., another brother, died 
here in town several years ago. Simon Gebhart, a son-in-law 
of Adam Snyder, died in Dayton, Ohio, within past year. Must 
have been about 88 years old. 

The earliest Weyand in Somerset County that I know of was 
Jacob. Whether he was the progenitor of the entire Somerset 
County family I do not know. Along about 1795, perhaps a 
little earlier perhaps a little later, the famous White Horse Tav- 
ern on Bedford pike, on top of Allegheny County, was kept by 
a Weyand and I think he was the man. There was a Major 
Jacob Weyand about 18 12, of Pennsylvania Militia, also the 
same. 

Of present Weyands there are: George Weyand, Somerset, 
Pa.; Henry Weyand, same address; Perry M. Weyand and Wilson 
Weyand, also Somerset. Pa. 

There was a Solomon Weyand died near Bakersville perhaps 
35 or more years ago. His widow, Mary, died about 1902 or 3, 




W. H. H. AGI.ER 

(No. 140) 




A W AGI.KR 
(No 140-1) 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 85 



age near 79. Left 5 sons, i daughter, 57 grandchildren, 42 great- 
grandchildren. It is probable that those whose names I have 
given are of that stock. Wesley Barkley, son-in-law, Bakers- 
ville, Somerset County, could give information. 

I used to know an old gentleman named Weyand who used 
to live on Pike about four miles east of Somerset. I forget 
first name. Is no longer living. He belonged to the Dunkard 
Church. One of his daughters was married to a Mr. Kimmell 
and I think they live on home farm. Will make further inquiry 
if I see him, but that is not very often. 

There was a Samuel Weyand died in Black Hawk County, 
Iowa, in 1895. Samuel was probably a brother of Solomon, as 
he went to Iowa from Jefferson Township where Solomon lived. 

I think all the Somerset County Weyands are of the same 
original families. There now remains to mention Daniel Wey- 
and. He was raised at the White Horse Hotel or Tavern on top 
of Allegheny Mountain. Later he came to Berlin and among 
other things taught school. Married a Miss Johnson there. 
About 1834 he came to Somerset and purchased the Somerset 
Whig, which he conducted until 1840. I believe in that interval 
he also served a term in Pennsylvania Legislature. Read law 
and was admitted to bar in 1841, and for his day became a man 
of considerable wealth for a community like this. A Democrat 
in his politics and a pillar of the Methodist Church. I do not 
remember year of his death except that it was after 1880. 

He had no sons; family all girls. These I think are all living — 
Mrs. S. H. Darragh, Beaver, Pa. (Think her first name is Kath- 
erine, now a widow); Mrs. Sarah Weyand Piatt, Somerset, Pa.; 
Mrs. Mary W. Shafer, Somerset, Pa.; Emma Weyand Adams, 
wife of Capt. Milo R. Adams. Capt. Adams died at Washington 
City a few weeks ago. They lived there. Mrs. John F. Blymer, 
youngest daughter, probably lives in Bedford, Pa. First name, 
I think, is Mattie. They did live in Bedford, but may have gone 
to Philadelphia. 

If you write to Sarah W. Piatt, Somerset, Pa., she will proba- 
bly be able to tell you all about her father's family. Of course 
you should write to some of the Weyands who live in the country, 
if you want details about them, as Mrs. P. might not have them. 

I would also add that there was a Mr. Weyand lived at Beaver, 
Pa., where for many years he published a newspaper. Think 
his first name was Michael and that he was a brother of Daniel. 
For information about his family you had better write to Mrs. 
Scudder H. Darrah, Beaver, Pa., who certainly knows all about 
them as he was probably her uncle. 

Trusting that I have given you enough to enable you to run 
these several families down, I am. 

Very truly yours, 

Somerset, Pa. Wm. H. WelflEy. 

Mr Welfley does not claim all the above statements are cor- 
rect.— E. C. W. 



86 CHRISTIAN W^^ANDT AND POSTERITY 



BowERSTON, Ohio, Aug. 28, 1908. 
Mr. E. C. Wyand, 

Eakles Mills, Md. 

My Dear Sir: — Your very interesting letter and sketch was 
received this morning, and it is needless to say I am delighted 
with them. We all feel so glad to know that you of the East are 
interested in our movement here in Ohio. We sincerely hope 
to meet some of you in Canton this year. Some have written 
to that effect. We only hope that nothing will prevent, and as 
many of you as can come will be very welcome. I have sent out 
almost 300 invitations, one to each family. The first reunion 
was a little picnic gotten up in a hurry and inviting only the 
relatives here in our owti township. Mrs. Rohan, from Ken- 
tucky, and Mrs. E. M. Long from Cadiz, being about the only 
ones present from a distance. They talked it over, formed an 
organization and last year extended the invitation to all they 
could trace up. Last year there were about 150 present, but 
we had a very disagreeable day, which probably lessened the 
attendance. So this year Mrs. W. B. Penn wTote to Mr. Caleb 
Wyand and started a correspondence in your state. All from 
Maryland who have written are greatly interested. I will give 
you some idea of our plan. We have printed application blanks 
which we send out and they are returned with the fee of one dol- 
lar. This makes you a member of the association and you receive 
your certificate. You will receive the invitations each year and 
can keep track of the reunions in that way. This fee includes 
the family and is paid only once (not each year). This is used 
to pay the expense of printing, etc., etc. The first letter I 
received was from W. H. Wyand, Hagersto\^•n, Md., and I sent 
him a half dozen of these blanks. Now I do not know how far 
apart you people are or anything about the number of families, 
so if you do not get a blank from him and care for any, I will 
gladly send them. 

John Weyandt was my great-grandfather and I'm sending 
you a very short sketch which I have copied. After this reunion 
is over I will write you all I can find out. Just now this little 
sketch is all that is available. He had four sons and two daugh- 
ters — one of which, Mary, is my grandmother. She was married 
to Henry Boen Heller. They lived all their lives within a mile 
of this town. They had two sons and four daughters, one Mar- 
garet J., married to W. H. Host is my mother. I think we can 
surely get some subscribers for your book — at least I will do my 
best, and will write you results. I surely am in favor of a reunion 
at the "Old Homestead." Will be glad to get the pictures and 
to hear from you again 

Yours, 

Miss Bessie Host, 

Bowerston, 
Harrison Co., Ohio. 




DAVID H. BUXTON 

(No. 126) 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 87 

Decatur, Ind., April 2, 1909. 
Mr. E. Clayton Wyand, 

Eakles Mills, Md. 

Dear Sir: — My sister, Mrs. W. H. Host, of Bowerston, Ohio, 
on yesterday sent me a typewritten copy of a letter written by 
you on the 25th day of August, 1908, to her daughter. Miss Bessie 
Host, Secy, of the Warner Weyandt Reunion Association, and 
which was read at their 1908 re-union by Miss Host. I have 
read the letter and the brief history that follows the letter, with 
great deal of interest. I was not at the reunion, and I am not 
informed that you were there. I observe from your letter that 
you are prepairing a family history of the Weyandts. My interest 
in the matter grows out of the fact that my mother was a Weyandt 
I was quite young when my grand-father died, and my recollec- 
tion is that his Christian name was John. He had six children 
that I remember, namely: John, Jacob, Daniel, Christena and 
Mary A. (my mother). I presume you have all these names. 
My mother and father were married in about the year 1837. My 
father's people and my mother's people came to Ohio from 
Greene County, Pennsylvania, about the year 18 19. As I am 
informed they were both born in Greene County, Pa. When I 
was quite young I remember of hearing my Grand-mother Wey- 
andt talking about Hagerstown, Maryland. What I desire to 
be informed on is, will your book, when completed, run down 
the lines of relationship so as to take in the daughters and fam- 
ilies of daughters of the Weyandts. In short, would it give my 
mother's children, Iier name having, by marriage, been changed 
to Heller? If so, I would feel more interest in it. A number of 
years ago, I was in Van WVrt, Ohio, and met a Mr. Weyandt and 
had a talk with him. I have but a faint recollection of what he 
said for I was at the time in a hurry and only talked with him 
a few moments. It seems to me that he said his father was a 
cousin of my grand-father Weyandt. I speak of this incident 
thinking that you may not have heard of them, I live in Adams 
County, Indiana, which joins Van Wert County, Ohio, and that 
set of Weyandts were pioneers of Van Wert County. I would be 
greatly pleased to attend a reunion at your place, such as you 
have suggested in your letter to Miss Host, but my age is against 
me in making any promises. I was 70 years old last Monday. 
Of course, I do not feel as old as I used to imagine a person would 
feel at tha age of three score and ten. I have served twelve 
years on the Circuit Court bench, but am engaged in the practice 
of law with my son at this time. I have lived here over forty 
two years. If you have no data of the Van Wert Weyandts, I 
might get it for you. I would gladly help you if I could be of 
any service to you, in order to get the history published. 
Very truly yours, D. D. HELLER, 

Decatur, 
Adams Co., Ind. 



88 CHRISTIAN WYANDT AND POSTERITY 



Canton, Ohio, Dec. 28, 1908. 
Mr. Caleb Wyandt, 

Keedysville, Md. 

Dear Sir: — I am interested in finding official records which 
tell something of my ancestors on my mother's side. My mother 
was Elizabeth Wyandt, daughter of Henry Wyandt, who was 
born in Washington Co., Md., according to a county history, 
in 1787. His father was Christian Wyandt and his mother 
Amelia Putman (or Putnam) Wyandt of the same county. 

What I am after is facts in regard to the birthplace of Henry 
Wyandt and as to his family. Also whether Christian Wyandt 
was in any way connected with service in the Revolutionary war. 
I am interested in a Sons of American Revolution chapter being 
formed here and want to know my lineage, so as to ascertain 
whether I am eligible to membership. If you can point me to 
any history, or any records that will help me trace this ancestry 
and establish proof of service in the Revolutionary war, if he 
served, I shall esteem it a great favor. 

My mother's mother, (my grandmother) was a Warner, 
daughter of George Warner, also of Maryland, I am told. From 
William Bell, an aged man of this city, a cousin of my mother, 
I learn that George Warner and the Wyandts lived in about the 
same section of Maryland. 

Should you be able to give me any facts in regard to this 
George Warner and his wife, her maiden name, etc., I would 
appreciate that very much. May be he was of Revolutionary 
note. 

If I get a trace of proof that either of the ancestors named 
were in service in the Revolutionary war, or that their wives 
were of Revolutionary stock, I shall have to file proof of this 
service and give the line of descent with as much proof of mar- 
riage, birth, death, etc., as can be had. 

You may not remember me, but I am the Wilhelm who is 
News Editor of The Repository and on whom you made a short 
call last September. 

Believe me I shall greatly appreciate any help you may give 
me along the lines indicated. 

Very respectfully yours, 

J. S. Weuhelm. 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 89 



WYANDT GENEALOGY 



, Christian Weyandt, 

1753-1812 

m. Amelia Putman, 

1 753-1853 



II. 

2. Jacob Wyandt, 1779-1838. 

3. John Wyandt, 1783-18 — . 

4. Catherine Wyandt, 1 784-1 871. 

5. Henry Wyandt, 1 787-1859. 

6. Susanna Wyandt, 1790-1857. 

7. Elizabeth Wyandt, 1793-18 — . 

8. Mary Wyandt, 1795-1838. 

9. Christena Wyandt, 1797-18 — . 

10. Christian Wyand, 1800-18 — . 

11. Simon Wyand, 1804- 1872. 



II. 
2. Jacob Wyandt, 
1779-1838 
m. Magdalena Brubacher, 
1785-1864 



III. 

12. Joseph Wyandt, 1807-1891. 

13. Christian Wyandt, 1809-1891 

14. Leah Wyandt, 1811-1802. 

15. ElizabethWyandt, 1814-1889. 

16. Sarah Wyandt, 1817-1859. 

17. Daniel B. Wyandt, 1820-1865 

18. Mary Wyandt, 1822 . 

19. Rachel Wyandt, 1824 . 







IV. 




100. 


Scott Wyandt. 


III. 


lOI. 


Lillian Wyandt. 


17. Daniel B. Wyandt, 
1820-1865 


102. 


Charles Christian Wyandt 


103. 


Sallie Wyandt.. 


m. Catherine Griffith. 


104. 


Mary Wyandt. 




105. 


Cyrus Wyandt. 


■ 


106. 


Walter Wyandt. 






III. 


II. 


'20. 


John Wyandt. 


3. John Wyandt, 


21. 


Jacob Wyandt. 


1783-18— 


• 22. 


Daniel Wyandt. 


m, Magdalena Warner, 


23- 


Christena Wyandt. 


1795-18— 


24. 


Abraham Wyandt. 




l25- 


Mary A. Wyandt. 



90 CHRISTIAN WYANDT GENEALOGY 



III. 
25. Mary A. Wyandt, 

18 

m. Henry Boen Heller. 



IV. 

106. Nancy Heller. 

107. Daniel D. Heller. 
. 108. Edwin S. Heller. 

\ 109. Margaret J. Heller. 

I no. Mary E. Heller. 

1 III. Albert P. Heller. 

[112. Elizabeth A. Heller. 



II. 
4. Catherine Wyandt, 
1784-1871 
m. Jacob Schneider, 
1777-1869 



'26. Christian Snyder, 1802-18 — 

27. Rosanna Snyder, 1804-18 — 

28. John Snyder, 1806-18 — . 

29. Elizabeth Snyder, 1809-18— 

30. Susanna Snyder, 1811-18 — . 

31. Ezra J. Snyder, 1813-1888. 

32. Adam Snyder, 1815-1890. 

33. Mary Snyder, 1817-189-. 

34. Matilda Snyder, 18 19- 1894. 

35. Jacob Snyder, 1821-21. 

36. Clarissa Snyder, 1823-1883. 

37. Josiah Snyder, 1827-1909. 

38. Jacob Snyder, 1832-32. 



III. 
31. Ezra J. Snyder, 

1813-1888 
m. Sarah Staubs, 
1814-1889 



IV. 

113. Catherine Snyder. 

114. Jacob M. Snyder. 

115. David O. Snyder. 

116. Elizabeth Snyder. 

117. Rosanna Snyder. 

118. Susan Snyder. 

119. Mary E. Snyder. 

120. Aaron D. Snyder. 

121. Jeremiah Snyder. 

122. Barbara E. Snyder. 



IV. 

114. Jacob M. Snyder, 

m. Margaret Rinehart. 



V. 

300. Fidelia A. Snyder. 

301. Laura V. Snyder. 

302. Anna M. Snyder. 



V. 
300. Fidelia Snyder, / 500. 
m. Bert Miller. \ 501. 



VI. 

Arnold Miller. 




CURTIS L. BUXTON 

(No. !28) 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 91 



V. VI. 

301. Laura V. Snyder, j 502. — 

m. John Utz. \ 503. 



VI. 

V. [ 504. 

302. Anna Snyder, < 505. 

m. John Davis. [ 506. 



V. 
IV. [ 303. Kate Snyder. 

116. Elizabeth Snyder, ] 304. Edgar Snyder. 

rn. Martin Snyder. [ 305. Harvey M. Snyder. 



IV. 



V. 

'306. Ben j. Zimmerman. 
307. Oliver J. Zimmerman. 



117. Rosanna Snyder, \ 308. Kate Zimmerman 



m. 56. Nic. Zimmerman. 



309. Sadie Zimmerman. 

310. Henry K. Zimmerman. 



IV. V. 

119. Mary E. Snyder, / (See 70. Daniel W. Wyand). 

ni. 70. Daniel \V. Wyand. \ 



IV. V. 

120. Aaron D. Snyder, / 319. Verda Snyder. 

m. Annie Eakle. \ 320. Genevieve Snyder. 



V. 

IV. [321. Jennie Snyder. 

121. Jeremiah Snyder, j 322. Herbert G. Snyder, 

m. Nellie Easterday. [ 323. Grace Snyder. 



VI. 
V. [ 507. Dora Eakle. 

321. Jennie Snyder, \ 508. Nyle Eakle. 

m. Clayton O. Eakle. | 509. 

[510. 



CHRISTIAN WYANDT GENEALOGY 





V. 

Herbert G. Snyder, / 
m. Maude Baxter. \ 

III. 
Clarissa Snyder, 

1823-1883 
m. William Buxton. 


511. 
512. 

■ 123. 
124. 

125. 
126. 
127. 
128. 


VI. 


322. 




36 


IV. 

Jacob Buxton. 
Susan Buxton. 
Almeda Buxton. 
David H. Buxton. 
Otho C. Buxton. 
Curtis L. Buxton. 



IV. 
123. Jacob Buxton, 

m. Mary Cunningham. 



V. 

1324. Harry L. Buxton. 
325. Mary Buxton. 
326. George Bu.xton. 



IV. 
124. Susan Buxton, 

m. Rev. J. W. Kiracofe. 



327- 
328. 

329- 
330. 

l33i- 



V. 

John Kiracofe. 



Bertha Kiracofe. 
Nellie Kiracofe. 



IV. 

125. Almeda Buxton, 
m. W. O. B. Sperow. 



V. 

('332. Dr. Edgar Sperow. 
\ 333. Rev. Everett Sperow. 
I 334. Cora Sperow. 
I 335. John Sperow. 



IV. r 336. 

126. David H. Buxton, ] 337. 
m. . [338. 



V. 



IV. 

128. Curtis L. Buxton, / 339. 

m. . \ 



V. 
Maude Buxton. 



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37 



III. 
Josiah Snyder, 



m. 



IV. 

129. Martin L. Snyder. 

130. Dora Snyder. 

131. Prof. Otho C. Snyder. 



II. 
5. Henry Wyandt, 
1787-1859 
m. Elizabeth Warner. 



III. 

'39. Simon Wyandt, 1812-18 — . 

40. Sarah Wyandt, 18 14- 18 — . 

41. Eva Wyandt, 1816-18 — . 

42. Susan Wyandt, 1818-18 — . 
■ 43. David Wyandt, 18 20-1 861. 

44. Catherine Wyandt, 1822-1864. 

45. Magdalena Wyandt, 1824-18 — 

46. Elizabeth Wyandt, 1826-18 — . 

47. Jacob Wyandt, 1830-1908. 
48' Mary A. Wyand, 1833-Living. 



X 



IV. 



III. 
40. Sarah Wyandt, 
1814-18— 
m. John Brubacker. 
1812-1892 



132 
133 
134 
135 
136 
137 
138 
139 



III. 
41. Eva Wyandt, 
1816-18— 
m. George Agler. 



IV. 

140. Harry Agler. 

141. 

142. 

143- — 

144. 



III. 

Susan Wyandt, 

1818-1885 
m. William Reed. 



IV. 
f 145. Hiram Reed. 

146. William Reed. 

147. Henry Reed. 

148. Frank Reed. 

149. Mrs. Andrew Ax. 

150. Mrs. Daniel Resh. 

151. Mrs. Austin Sheller. 



94 CHRISTIAN WYANDT GENEALOGY 



III. 
43. David Wyandt, 
1 820- 1 86 1 
m. Mary Fribley, 
1818-1892 



IV. 

152. Daniel F. Wyandt, 1842-1864. 

153. Hester Wyandt, 1844-1873. 

154. Elizabeth Wyandt, 1845- 

155. Rebecca Wyandt, 1853- 

156. Annetta Wyandt, 1856- 

157. Rev. Jacob D. Wyandt, 1859- 



IV. 

157. Rev J. D. Wvandt, 
m. Regena Ryegsegger. 



V. 
f340. Effie Wyandt, 1885- 
{ 341. David D. Wyandt, 1887- 
I 342. Mary P. Wyandt, 1892- 
[343. Muriel I. Wyandt, 1894- 



III. 
45. Magdalena Wyandt, / 159. 
m. Jacob Hurraw. \ 160. 



IV. 

Mrs. Truman Palmer. 



IV. 



159- 



Hurrah, 



m. Truman Palmer. 



V. 

/ 344. Ollie Palmer. 
\ 345. Jacob Palmer. 



III. 
46. Elizabeth Wyandt, 
m. Wilhelm. 



IV. 



163. J. S. Wilhelm. 
i 164. 



III. 
47. Jacob Wyandt, 
1 830- 1908 
m. Isabel Sager, 

1832-1895 
m. (1899) Frances Hoab. 



IV. 

165. Mary Wyandt, 1860- 

166. Ella Wyandt, 1862- 

167 Harry E. Wyandt, 1864- 



II. 

Susan Wyandt, 

1791-1S57 
m. Jacob Suavely. 



III. 

49. John H. Suavely, 1813- 

50. Catherine Suavely, 1815-1896. 

51. Betsy Suavely, 18 17. 

52. Washington C. Snavely, 1819-1894 

53. Mary E. Snavely, 1821- 




■fjf^.^;. 




RKV. SIMON SNYDER WVANU 

(No. 243) 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 95 



III. 
49. John H. Snavely, 



m. 



IV. 

168. Martin Snavely. 

169. Mrs. Smith. 

170. Mrs. M. F. Lumm. 

171. . 

172. . 

173. Charles Snavely. 

174. Hezekiah Snavely. 

175. John Snavely. 

176. . 

177. . 

178. . 

179. . 

180. — . 



IV. 
173. Charles Snavely, 
m. 202. Rohrer. 



/ 346. Prof. Guy Snavely. 
\ 347. Dr. Earle Snavely. 



III. 
50. Catherine Snavely, 
m. Martin Eakle. 



181. 
182. 
183. 
184. 
185. 



IV. 
Jacob S. Eakle. 
Georgianna Eakle. 
Washington Eakle. 
H. M. R. Eakle. 
Amanda Eakle. 



IV. 

183. Washington Eakle, 
m. Nellie Cushwa. 



V. 

348. Daisy Eakle. 

349. Clayton O. Eakle. 

\ 350. Clarence W. Eakle. 
I 351. Mame Eakle. 
[ 352. Nellie Eakle. 



IV. 

185. Amanda Eakle, 

m. Frank T. Hagan. 



/ 353- Washington C. Hagan. 
\ 354. Mollie Hagan. 



IV. 
181. Jacob S. Eakle, 
m. Mollie Sperow. 



355- 
356. 

357- 
358. 
359- 



V. 
Lettie R. Eakle. 
Martin L. Eakle. 



Elsie Eakle. 
Roy Eakle. 



96 


CHRISTIAN WYANDT GENEALOGY 


52. 


III. 

Washington C. Snavely, 
m Elizabeth Staubs. 


IV. 

186. Susan Snavely. 

187. David H. Snavely. 

188. John L. Snavely. 

189. Mollie Snavely. 

190. Jacob Snavely. 

191. Benj. F. Snavely. 

192. Alice Snavely. 

193. Daniel W. Snavely. 


i87. 


IV. 
David H. Snively, 
m. Kate Hammond. 


/360 
I 


V. 

. Abraham Snavely. 




IV. 
Jacob Snavely, / 361. 
m. Emma Thomas. \ 362. 


V. 


190. 


. 








IV. 
Daniel W. Snively, 
m. Iva Naille. 


(363. 
I 


V. 


^96 




53 


III. 

. Mary Snavely, 
m. John Keyfauver. 


194. 

195- 
196. 
197. 
198. 
199. 
_ 200. 


IV. 
Julia M. Kefauver. 
Jacob Keyfauver. 
Washington Keyfauver. 
Amanda Keyfauver. 
George Keyfauver 
Elias Keyfauver. 
Kate Keyfauver. 


195 


IV. ( 
. Jacob Keyfauver, 
m. Annie Reel. 


364- 
365- 
366. 


V. 

Frank B. Keyfauver. 
Charles Keyfauver. 
Harry K. Keyfauver. 


364 


V. 

. Frank B. Keyfauver 
m. Poffenberg( 


?r. 


VI. 

513. Lee Keyfauver. 

514. Alice Keyfauver. 

515. May Keyfauver. 

516. Charles Keyfauver. 

517. Ralph Keyfauver. 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 97 



IV. 
200. Kate Keyfauver, 
m. Samuel Oliver, 
m. John Fisher. 



V. 

f 467. Mollie L. Oliver. 
] 368. Hugh O. Fisher. 
[ 369. Gay Fisher. 



IV. 

198. George Keyfauver, 
m. Emma Gouff. 



V. 
/ 370. Pearl Keyfauver. 

\ 



II. 
8. Mary Wyandt, 

m. Benj. Zimmerman. 



54- 
5.5- 
56. 
57- 
58. 



III. 
Caroline Zimmerman. 
Elias Zimmerman. 
Nicodemus Zimmerman. 
Neil Zimmerman. 
Amelia Zimmerman. 



III. 
56. Nicodemus Zimmerman, 
m. 117. Rosanna Snyder. 



IV. 

/ (See No. 117, Snyder family). 

\ 



III. 
58. Amelia Zimmerman, 
m. Martin J. Rohrer. 



IV. 

201. Mrs. Samuel Hoff master. 

202. Mrs. Chas. Suavely. 

203. Lewis W. Rohrer. 

204. Mrs. David Stouffer. 

205. Charles A. W. Rohrer. 

206. Elmer Rohrer. 

207. Nic. Z. Rohrer. 



IV. 
201. Mary Rohrer, 

m. Samuel Hoffmaster. 



V. 

371. Martin Hoffmaster. 

372. Estella Hoffmaster. 

373. George Hoffmaster. 

374. Clinton Hoffmaster. 

375. Daisy Hoffmaster. 

376. Arthur Hoffmaster. 

377. Agnes Hoffmaster. 



IV. 

203. Lewis Rohrer, 

m. Annabell Tucker. 



V. 
f 378. Ray F. Rohrer. 
] 379. Roy B. Rohrer. 
[ 380. Reta E. Rohrer. 



98 CHRISTIAN WYANDT GKNEALOGY 



IV. V. 

205. Hettie Rohrer, / (See No. 173, Snavely). 

m. 173. Charles Snavely. \ 



IV. 
204. Maria Rohrer, 
m. David Stouffer. 



V. 

'381. Ada Stouffer. 

382. Carl Stouffer. 

383. Pearl Stouffer. 

384. Earl Stouffer. 

385. Guy Stouffer. 



V. VI. 

381. Ada Stoufer, /4i3- 

m. Gantz. 1414. 



II. 

9. Christena Wyandt, 
m. Samuel Deaner. 



III. 
f 59. Jonas Deaner. 
•| 60. Sophia Deaner. 
[61. Catherine Deaner. 



III. 
59. Jonas Deaner, 

m. Annie M. Baker. 



IV. 

208. Eugenia Deaner. 

209. Arbelin Deaner. 

210. Prof. H. Clay Deaner. 

211. Fannie Deaner. 



III. IV. 

61. Catherine Deaner, / 212. Emma Thomas, 
m. Josiah Thomas. \2i3. Annie Thomas. 



IV. 
213. Emma Thomas, j 

m. 190. Jacob Snavely. \ 



V. 
(See No. 190. Snavely). 



II. 

10. Christian Wyand. 
m. Polly Cost. 



III. 
{ 62. Frederick Wyand. 
• 63. David H. Wyand. 

64" Hiram C. Wyand. 

65. Mary Wyand. 




.loSUriiLS E. WVAXD 

(SPANISH WAR mariner) 

(No 251) 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 99 



^:^ III. 
6|. Frederick Wyand, 
m. Lydia Ecker. 



IV. 

214. Anna Wyand. 

215. Grant Wyand. 

216. Lillian Wyand. 



IV. 
214. Anna Wyand, / 386. 

m. Theodore Davis. \ 387. 



V. 
Fred Wyand. 



IV. 
215. Grant Wyand, 
m. Etta Rohrer. 



V. 
/ 388. Lena Wyand. 
\ 389. Fred Wyand. 



IV. 
216. Lillian Wyand, 
m. Harvey Cost. 



390 
391 
392 
393 
394 
395 



V. 



Lloyd Cost. 



III. 

63. David H. Wyand, / 217. 
m. Kate E. Wilson. \ 218. 



IV. 
William C. Wyand. 
Temperence Wyand. 



III. 

64. Hiram C. Wyand, 

m. . 

m. Susan Bovey. 



I 



IV. 

219. Anna Wyand. 

220. Fred C. Wyand. 



II. 

II. Simon Wyand, 

m. Rebecca Geeting. 



III. 

66. Joshua Wyand. 

67. Susan Wyand. 

68. Caleb Wyand. 

69. Barbara A. Wyand. 

70. Daniel W. Wyand. 

71. Rose Wyand. 

72. Aaron C. Wyand. 



loo CHRIvSTlAN W^^ANDT GENEALOGY 



III. 
66. Joshua Wyand, 
m. Anna Miller. 



IV. 

221. Minnie Wyand. 

222. Albert Wyand. 

223. Fannie Wyand. 

224. Kate Wyand. 

225. Harry Wyand. 

226. Jacob Wyand. 

227. Benj. Wyand. 

228. Joseph Wyand. 

229. Jossie Wyand. 



IV. 
221. Minnie Wyand, 

m. Alvin Mullindore. 



396 

397 
398 

399 
400 



V. 
Harry Mullindore. 



III. 

67. Susan Wyand, / 230. 
m. Ezra Wright. \ 231. 



IV. 

Anna Wright. 
Aaron Wright. 



III. 
68. Caleb Wyand, 

m. Sarah P. Blessing. 



IV. 

232. Emory E. Wyand. 

233. Ora B. Wyand. 

234. Myrte Wyand. 

235. Lorilla Wyand. 

236. Pearl Wyand. 

237. Eva Wyand. 



IV. 

232. Emory E. Wyand, 
m. Susan Hoffman. 



V. 

401. Elmer Wyand. 

402. Chester Wyand. 

403. Arbelin Wyand. 

404. 

405. 

406. 



IV. 

233. Ora B. Wyand, / 407. 
m. Eva Vinson. \ 408. 



V. 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. loi 



IV. 
234. Myrta Wyand, / 409. 

m. Wood Poffenberger. \ 



IV. f4io. 

235. Pearl Wyand, \ 411. 

m. Wilson. (412. 



III. 

69. Barbara A. Wyand, 
m. Jacob C. Rohrer. 



IV. 

238. Alice Rohrer. 

239. Dr. C. W. G. Rohrer. 

240. Simon S. Rohrer. 

241. Jacob M. Rohrer. 



III. 
70. Daniel W. Wyand. 
m. 119. Mary E. Snyder. 



IV. 

242. Webster H. Wyand. 

243. Rev. S. Snyder Wyand. 

244. Arthur P. Wyand. 

245. E. Clayton Wyand. 

246. Hattie E. Wyand. 

247. Ira E. Wyand. 

248. Amos D. Wyand. 

249. Fred B. Wyand. 



IV. 
242. Webster H. Wyand. 
m. Daisy E. Bovey. 



V. 

413. Ralph B. Wyand. 

414. Mary Wyand. 

415. Genevieve Wyand. 

416. Frances Wyand. 

417. Dorothea Wyand. 



IV. 

244. Arthur P. Wyand, / 418. 
m. Florence Lamar. \ 



V. 
Howard L. Wyand. 



III. 

72. Aaron C. Wyand, 

m. Virginia Easterday, 
m. Marsina Beck. 



IV. 

250. Charles L. Wyand. 

251. Josephus E. Wyand. 

252. Orange J. Wyand. 

253. Martin L. Wyand. 

254. Virginia Wyand. 



I02 CHRISTIAN WYANDT GENEALOGY 



E. CLAYTON WYAND 



THE compiler, born April 22, 1875, in the 
, house occupied by General McClellan as 
^ili^ headquarters during battle of Antietam, 
half mile west of Keedysville, Md. Edu- 
cated at public schools, becoming deaf at 18 from 
spinal meningitis, after two years learning the 
mercantile business, entered Maryland School for 
the Deaf in 1894. Learned printing and prepared for 
college. Entered Gauladet National College for the 
Deaf in 1897, graduating with degree of B. A. 
and honors of orator. Became a member of the 
Faculty of Maryland School on leaving college. 
Was connected with the college magazine during 
the entire college life. Studied art at the college 
and at Corcoran Art Gallery School during college 
career. Active worker among the deaf mutes of 
Maryland and traveled the state in the interest 
of the school. Has been president of the State 
Association and other organizations of the deaf. 
According to a resolution adopted by the Alumni 
of Maryland School in 1904, he is author of, and 
carried through the Legislator, the compulsory edu- 
cational law for the deaf. Has been a writer and 
contributed to publications of the public as well as 
those in the interest of the deaf, among them being 
Harper's. Has been a leader in the National 
Association of the Deaf in the conventions in St, 
Louis in 1904, and in Norfolk, Va., 1907. At the 
latter he welcomed the delegates in behalf of the 
South. Is now on three committees, being chair- 



MARYLAND, PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO. 103 



man of the one delegated to call on President 
Roosevelt in regard to civil service regulations 
barring the deaf from public service. 

While at college was interested in church work 
and thought of entering the ministry, this being 
offset by faculty positions. Licensed by the 
United Brethren Church in September, 1908, as 
missionary to the Deaf. Preached in Maryland, 
Washington, D. C, and Virginia, going to New 
England three months later at the call of the Deaf 
of Boston and other cities. Took up work there 
and now employed under the direction of the 
Evangelical Alliance and is accepted by all the 
denominations of that body, he having been or- 
dained an elder by the U. B. Church in March, 
1909. His work is now confined to the deaf, as 
he speaks normally and is frequently in public. 
Has the distinction of being the first of the so- 
called deaf mutes to get into the order of Knights 
of Pythias, and was given credit for breaking the 
barrier at the National convention in Norfolk. 

Work in History and Archaeology merited him 
the degree of M. A. In lineage he descends from 
Christian Weyandt through Simon (last son), and 
Daniel Webster Wyand. On his mother's side 
he descends from Christian Wyandt through 
Catherine, who married Jacob Snyder, her son 
Ezra J., and Mary Etta, the daughter of Ezra J. 
Snyder and Daniel W. Wyand were first cousins. 
Many of his childhood years were spent in the old 
Putman and Wyandt homes, living with his grand 
parents, Ezra J. Snyder and wife. To that incident 
belongs the birth of this book. 



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